Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full - Hardcover

Black, Conrad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586485199 ISBN 13: 9781586485191

Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2007

Synopsis

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now separates the good in Nixon-his foreign initiatives, some of his domestic policies, and his firm political hand-from the sinister, in a book likely to generate enormous attention and controversy. Black believes the hounding of Nixon from office was partly political retribution from a lifetimes worth of enemies and Nixons misplaced loyalty to unworthy subordinates, and not clearly the consequence of crimes in which he participated. Conrad Blacks own recent legal travails, though hardly comparable, have undoubtedly given him an unusual insight into the pressures faced by Nixon in his last two years as president and the first few years of his retirement.

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Product Description:

Richard M. Nixon The acclaimed biographer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes on Richard Nixon in the first full biography in a generation, bringing a unique perspective to the life and politics of one of Americas most controversial public figures Full description

Review:

"Wall Street Journal," September 29, 2008 "Lord Black combines a mastery of his material with elegant...prose; and he brings a worldly outlook and sophisticated analysis to his subject...His biography is required reading for anyone who really wants to understand Richard Nixon."

About this edition

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1586485199
• ISBN 13: 9781586485191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1152