George Bush, influenced by "groupthink," and Saddam Hussein, known to have paranoid and violent tendencies, led their nations into the Persian Gulf War. Bush had a privileged childhood;Hussein knew abuse as a child. Did these vastly different psychological paths lead the two men into war? In his new book, "Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology," UC Davis psychology professor Alan Elms examines the psychobiographies of Bush, Hussein and more than a dozen other prominent figures, including Sigmund Freud, Isaac Asimov, L. Frank Baum, Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Nabokov. Along the way he reveals such psychological relationships as that between the weak males and strong females in "The Wizard of Oz" and Baum's childhood heart disease, which kept him from strenuous activities, and his relationship with his mother-in-law, a distinguished women's rights advocate. Throughout his book, Elms shows how psychology can make important contributions to biography and how biography can contribute significantly to the further development of psychology.