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94. Ibid.

95. Telegram from Allyn C. Donaldson, Department of State, to Virginia Nash, 4.21.60.

96. Emma Duchane, interview, 4.30.95.

97. Vasquez, interview.

98. A. Nash, interview.

99. C. Davis, interview.

39: Absolute Zero

1. Alicia Nash, interview, 8.15.97.

2. Martha Nash Legg, interview, 8.1.95.

3. Interviews with John Danskin, 10.19 95, and Joyce Davis, 5.30.97.

4. Handwritten note from Alicia Nash to Joyce Davis, summer 1960.

5. Odette Larde, interview, 12.7.95.

6. A. Nash, interview.

7. Jean-Pierre Cauvin, professor of French, University of Texas at Austin, interview, 8.25.97; also Agnes Sherman, interview, 8.26.96.

8. O. Larde, interview.

9. Cauvin, interview.

10. Danskin, interview.

11. Ibid.

12. Elvira Leader, interview, 6.9.95.

13. Solomon Leader, interview, 6.9.95.

14. Danskin, interview.

15. Samuel C. Howell, memorandum to file, 11.10.60.

16. Notes of conversations between Oskar Morgenstern and Douglas Brown, Princeton University Archives, 11.2.50.

17. Letter from Raymond J. Woodrow to John F. Nash, Jr., 10.21.60.

18. Letter from Donald Spencer to Jean Leray, 10.31.60.

19. Ibid.

20. Burton Randol, professor of mathematics, City University of New York, interview, 8.26.97.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. Confidential source.

25. Confidential source.

26. Randol, interview.

27. Danskin, interview.

28. Martin Shubik, interview, 10.94.

29. Paul Zweifel, interview, 9.6.95.

30. Edmond Nelson, professor of mathematics, Princeton University, interview, 8.17.95.

31. Armand Borel, interview, 3.1.96.

32. Danskin, interview. Robert Goheen, president of Princeton University, was unable to confirm these events, which would have been handled by someone on the campus security detail in any case, interview, 9.10.97.

33. A. Nash, interview.

34. O. Larde, interview.

35. Confidential source.

40: Tower of Silence

1. Martha Nash Legg, interview, 8.2.95.

2. Ibid.

3. Gerald N. Grob, The Mad Among The Mad Among f/s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), and "Abuse in American Mental Hospitals in Historical Perspective: Myth and Reality," f/s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), and "Abuse in American Mental Hospitals in Historical Perspective: Myth and Reality," International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, vol. 3 (1980), pp. 295310. Also interview with Grob, professor of history, Rutgers University, 8.4.97. vol. 3 (1980), pp. 295310. Also interview with Grob, professor of history, Rutgers University, 8.4.97.

4. See biographies of Dorothea Dix, including Rachel Basker, Angel of'Mercy: The Story of Dorothea Dix Angel of'Mercy: The Story of Dorothea Dix (New York: Messner, 1955); also Penny Colman, (New York: Messner, 1955); also Penny Colman, Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix (White Hall, Va.: Shoetree Press, 1992). (White Hall, Va.: Shoetree Press, 1992).

5. Descriptions of Trenton State are based on interviews with psychiatrists who were affiliated with the hospital, including Robert Garber, former president, American Psychiatric a.s.sociation, 5.6.96; Peter Baumecker, 5.1.96, 5.2.96, 5.9.96; Arthur A. Sugarman, 8.25.97.

6. Baumecker, interview.

7. Ibid.

8. Ariel Rubinstein, e-mail, 2.3.97.

9. Baumecker, interview. "B" probably refers to Jacob Bricker (see Chapter 44 Chapter 44).

10. John Danskin, interview, 10.19.96. For an account of the hijacking, see Time Time magazine, 2.3.61. magazine, 2.3.61.

11. M. Legg, interview.

12. Danskin, interview.

13. Robert Winters, interview, 8.9.95.

14. Letter from Robert Winters to Joseph Tobin, 2.2.61.

15. Letter from Robert Winters to Harold Magee, 2.2.59. Also interview with Tobin, 6.10.97.

16. Seymour Krim, "The Insanity Bit," op. cit.

17. Baumecker, interview.

18. Phillip Ehrlich, psychiatrist, Princeton Hospital, interview, 8.24.97.

19. Baumecker, interview.

20. M. Legg, interview.

21. Interviews with Garber and Baumecker.

22. Baumecker, interview.

23. Danskin, interview.

24. Garber, interview.

25. Baumecker, interview.

26. Ibid.

27. Burton Randol, interview, 8.25.97.

28. Lenore McCall, Between Us and the Dark Between Us and the Dark (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1947). (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1947).

29. Baumecker, interview.

30. Garber, interview.

31. Jerome Lettvin, interview, 7.25.97.

32. Grob, The Mad Among Us, The Mad Among Us, op. cit., p. 185. op. cit., p. 185.

33. Garber, interview.

34. Letter from John Nash to Alexander Mood, 12.17.94, one of many references Nash has made to his insulin treatments and memory loss.

35. Richard Nash, interview, 1.6.96.

36. Interviews with Grob and Lettvin.

37. Baumecker, interview.

38. Ibid.

39. Ibid.

40. Postcard from John Nash to Virginia Nash, 7.14.61. Nash says he's due to be released the following day.

41. Baumecker, interview.

42. Postcard from J. Nash to V. Nash, 7.14.61.

43. Baumecker, interview.

41: An Interlude of Enforced Rationality

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr., Les Prix n.o.bel 1994, Les Prix n.o.bel 1994, op. cit. op. cit.

2. Louis Sa.s.s, Madness and Modernism, Madness and Modernism, op. cit. op. cit.

3. A decline in measured intelligence within a short time of the onset of schizophrenia has been doc.u.mented in a series of studies. Jed Wyatt, personal communication, 6.97.

4. Letter from John Nash to Donald Spencer, undated, spring 1961.

5. Interviews with Armand Borel, 3.1.96, and Atle Selberg, 1.23.96.

6. Letter from Atle Selberg to John Nash, 9.25.61; letter from Robert Oppenheimer to John Nash, 10.3.61.

7. John Nash, members.h.i.+p application, 7.17.61, Inst.i.tute for Advanced Study Archive.

8. Letter from J. Nash to D. Spencer.

9. Shlomo Sternberg, interview, 3.5.96. Also postcards from John Nash to Virginia Nash, 8.1.61 and 8.3.61.