Synopsis In this comprehensive, and sympathetic, portrait of Richard M. Nixon, media mogul Conrad Black finds many virtues and accomplishments in the man much reviled in the press. Going back to Nixon's early years in public life, Conrad points out that Nixon, the outsider, was someone with whom the general public could identify. He cites what he sees as Nixon's service to the country during the Cold War, his cleaning up of unfinished business from the Johnson years (including the Vietnam War), and his bold efforts to reform the Republican Party. In Conrad's view, Nixon came to have a firm grasp of foreign policy and America's place in history; he feels that, by the end, Nixon had earned the status of elder statesman. Conrad is also the author of another very readable and well-received presidential biography, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: CHAMPION OF FREEDOM.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2007-10-22 |
| Size | | Length: | 1152 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.2 in | | Weight: | 53.6 oz |
Publisher's Note A definitive portrait of the notorious politician and disgraced president offers a balanced study of the triumphs, accomplishments, failures, scandals, strategies, and controversies of Richard Nixon's political career. By the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Industry Reviews "[Richard M. Nixon] is an accomplished work which is positive about its subject without being unnecessarily adulatory." (08/01/2007)
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