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For many people fame has lead to physical and psychological self-destruction. The physical aspect of the self-destruction is usually brought upon by drug and/or alcohol abuse. The psychological destruction is not so easily accompanied with a r ....

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... Cole Porter. Porter was one of the most famous songwriters in the United States in the early twentieth century. The third person was the fiction writer, John Cheever. Cheever obtained the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems sometime during their period of fame. Each of the three were also writers which was a vital part of Schaller's study. Schaller wanted to show that fame increased the self-consciousness in each of these people. To do this he analyzed the songs and stories written by these ...