The Madman in the White House - Patrick Weil

Disappointed by President Woodrow Wilson’s handling of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, American diplomat William C. Bullitt approached Sigmund Freud to co-author a psychological analysis of the president. Examine the significance of Bullitt and Freud’s findings with Patrick Weil, Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, who rediscovered the 1932 manuscript in Yale University’s archives in 2014 and authored the 2023 book “The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson.” Hosted in partnership with the Linda Hall Library. For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit http://theworldwar.org