In my first preview of one of Kipling’s two impostors, triumph, I casually nodded to hubris as the most obvious mechanism that turns success into disaster, then went on to give another example that I thought was a bit subtler.
And now John Edwards forces me to come back to hubris. In case, you’ve been behind [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘narcissism’
August 11, 2008
The Narcissism of John Edwards: Impostor Success or Failure?
August 8, 2008
The treacherous First Person
I’ve been meaning to share a tidbit of a conversation I recently had with my colleague at The Economist, Tom Standage, while we were having lunch at Zuni in San Francisco. Both of us are writing books, both of which are not traditional “histories” but have a strong element of history, and indeed assume a [...]
