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Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)
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Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
MARC Display
Richard
Nixon
: the
life
/ John A. Farrell.
by
Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)
Doubleday, [2017]
Call #:
973.924 N736f
Subjects
Nixon
,
Richard
M. (
Richard
Milhous), 1913-1994.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
ISBN:
9780385537353 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
737 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-699) and index.
Contents:
The dragon slayer -- "I had to win" -- As American as Thanksgiving -- Death, God, love, and war -- A kind of man the country needs -- HUAC -- A tragedy of history -- The Pink Lady -- The Great Train Robbery -- Checkers -- A candidate for the little man -- McCarthy -- The new
Nixon
-- The desolate night of man's inhumanity -- The field of pending battle --
Nixon
vs. Kennedy -- Wilderness -- The greatest comeback --
Nixon
's war -- Not fish nor fowl -- Drawing the sword -- The road to Watergate -- The week that changed the world -- A third-rate burglary -- A fairly reasonable interval -- Cancer on the presidency -- The final days -- Exile.
Summary:
"At the end of World War II, 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 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 who 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. A gripping and unsparing portrayal of our darkest president."--Provided by publisher.
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