Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996
The Roots of Radicalism
By Jared Diamond
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives
by Frank J. Sulloway
Pantheon, 653 pp., $30.00
The case of the alleged Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, grips our imagination, not least as a psychological mystery of childhood development. Why might he have become a driven serial murderer? At first his curriculum vitae—child of liberal parents, Harvard College graduate, brilliant mathematician—might have seemed to point to another career. What was there in his genes or childhood environment that could have stamped him so powerfully?
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