A FIRST-RATE MADNESS Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness By Nassir Ghaemi 340 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95. After examining the psychological histories of a few living leaders and a whole little power necropolis, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, is ready to proclaim a...
THE CHURCHILLS In Love and War By Mary S. Lovell Illustrated. 624 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. ike his mother, Jennie Jerome, and his cousin-by-marriage Consuelo Vanderbilt, Winston Churchill's Aunt Lily Hammersley was an American heiress whose fortune, it was hoped, would assist in bailing out the Churchill clan's ever shaky finances....
MR. CHARTWELL By Rebecca Hunt 242 pp. The Dial Press. $24. Every few years, there appear in most countries books that reveal the dirty truth about the national readership. France has recently given us ''The Kindly Ones'' and ''The Elegance of the Hedgehog'' -- the first distasteful, the other pretentious, and both eagerly embraced by a readership...