Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Nixon: The Fourth Year of His Presidency
Author: Nixon
Author: Nixon
Author: The Greatest Comeback
Author: Patrick J. BuchananPublisher: Forum Books
ISBN: 0553418645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House? In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan--who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968--gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests, social revolution, The Vietnam War, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, urban riots, campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party--from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan--into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating fly on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century.
Nixon, the Third Year of His Presidency
Author: Richard Milhous NixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States Foreign Relations 1969-1974
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nixon: the Fifth Year of His Presidency
Author: Richard Milhous NixonPublisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Richard Nixon
Author: John A. FarrellPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385537360
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon’s finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell’s magisterial biography of the president who came to embody postwar American resentment and division. Within four years of his first victory, Nixon was a U.S. senator; in six, the vice president of the United States of America. “Few came so far, so fast, and so alone,” Farrell writes. Nixon’s sins as a candidate were legion; and in one unlawful secret plot, as Farrell reveals here, Nixon acted to prolong the Vietnam War for his own political purposes. Finally elected president in 1969, Nixon packed his staff with bright young men who devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, welfare, civil rights, and protection of the environment. It was a fine legacy, but Nixon cared little for it. He aspired to make his mark on the world stage instead, and his 1972 opening to China was the first great crack in the Cold War. Nixon had another legacy, too: an America divided and polarized. He was elected to end the war in Vietnam, but his bombing of Cambodia and Laos enraged the antiwar movement. It was Nixon who launched the McCarthy era, who played white against black with a “southern strategy,” and spurred the Silent Majority to despise and distrust the country’s elites. Ever insecure and increasingly paranoid, he persuaded Americans to gnaw, as he did, on grievances—and to look at one another as enemies. Finally, in August 1974, after two years of the mesmerizing intrigue and scandal of Watergate, Nixon became the only president to resign in disgrace. Richard Nixon is a gripping and unsparing portrayal of our darkest president. Meticulously researched, brilliantly crafted, and offering fresh revelations, it will be hailed as a master work.
The Presidency of Richard Nixon
Author: Melvin SmallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A lively anecdotal account features every facet of Nixon's controversial administration, just in time for the 25th anniversary of his history-making resignation from the presidency. 23 photos.
Nixon: the Fifth Year of His Presidency
Author: Richard Milhous NixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Nixon
Author: Gerald S. StroberPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060927097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The husband-and-wife team's interviews with Nixon intimates, aides, cabinet members, political opponents, journalists, and critics, such as George McGovern, Alexander Haig, and John Erlichman, offer insights into the man and his administration and attempt to answer some of the questions that remain after his death. Discussion covers Nixon's entire presidency, with analysis of domestic programs and foreign affairs, the Viet Nam War, and, of course, the Watergate affair. Appendices offer a Watergate crimes roster and profiles of interviewees. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR