Richard M. Nixon

The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency In this provocative and revelatory assessment...
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Author: Elizabeth Drew
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Richard M. Nixon by Drew, Elizabeth

Richard M. Nixon

$70.23

Richard M. Nixon

$70.23
Author: Elizabeth Drew
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency

In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on domestic issues and often wasn't interested in them. Turning to international affairs, she reveals the inner workings of Nixon's complex relationship with Henry Kissinger, and their mutual rivalry and distrust. The Watergate scandal that ended his presidency was at once an overreach of executive power and the inevitable result of his paranoia and passion for vengeance.

Even Nixon's post-presidential rehabilitation was motivated by a consuming desire for respectability, and he succeeded through his remarkable resilience. Through this book we finally understand this complicated man. While giving him credit for his achievements, Drew questions whether such a man--beleaguered, suspicious, and motivated by resentment and paranoia--was fit to hold America's highest office, and raises large doubts that he was.

Author: Elizabeth Drew
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 05/29/2007
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.80w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780805069631


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2007 pg. 51
Booklist 04/15/2007 pg. 18
Library Journal 05/15/2007 pg. 97

About the Author

Elizabeth Drew is the award-winning author of thirteen previous books, including Washington Journal, Politics and Money, Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America, and The Corruption of American Politics. She is a regular political correspondent for The New York Review of Books and the former Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. She lives and works in Washington, D.C.




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