Nixon in Winter: The Final Revelations - Hardcover

Crowley, Monica

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9781860642661: Nixon in Winter: The Final Revelations

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ISBN 10: 1860642667 ISBN 13: 9781860642661

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 1998

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Monica Crowley was a 21-year-old graduate student when, having answered an advertisement, she became Richard Nixon's research assistant in 1990. Gradually she evolved into a confidante who remained with him until his death four years later. In this book she records Nixon's assessments of world events and world leaders, both as he sat brooding over his papers and draft memoirs, and during his almost manic peregrinations around the world. Ultimately the shadow of Watergate hung over his every moment, leading to revelations which startled the young Crowley. This portrait of an enigmatic and reviled former US President reveals him discussing international affairs at length; he is also seen as an aged widower cooking spaghetti for himself, reflecting on scandal, ageing and dying, and craving the company of the young researcher to whom he can pontificate and with whom he can keep his faculties alive.

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About the Author:

MONICA CROWLEY was foreign-policy assistant to former President Richard Nixon in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, from June 1990 to April 1994. She served as an editorial adviser and research consultant for Seize the Moment in 1992 and Beyond Peace in 1994, and traveled abroad extensively with him in 1993. She is now working toward her Ph.D. in international affairs at Columbia University. She lives in New Jersey.

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ast four years  of Richard Nixon's life, Monica Crowley served as his foreign-policy assistant and political confidante--a trusted member of the small circle of advisors with whom he shared hours of daily one-on-one conversations.

This is the remarkable story of the final public and private years of the thirty-seventh president, based on full reconstructions of the conversations Crowley had with him at the time.

Nixon in Winter puts the reader behind the scenes with the former president, allowing a unique glimpse into his life as elder statesman and private citizen.  It is filled with dramatic revelations about Nixon's influential role on the world stage, whether taking action himself to guide American foreign policy or whispering advice to his successors.  His hardheaded views on the end of the cold war, his emotional final trip to China, his powerful inside role during the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and his poignant thought

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