Richard Nixon : the life / John A. Farrell.
Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. "Richard Nixon" opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting 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 quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It is a stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial portrait of a man who embodied postwar American cynicism. Within four years of that first win, Nixon would be 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. Finally president, Nixon's staff was full of bright young men who devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, poverty, 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 theworld 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. It was Nixon who launched the McCarthy era, who set South against North, and who spurred the Silent Majority to despise and distrust the country's elites. 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 known as Watergate, Nixon became the only president to resign in disgrace. "Richard Nixon" is an enthralling tour de force biography of our darkest president, one that reviewers will hail as a defining portrait, and the full life of Nixon readers have awaited.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385537353
- ISBN: 0385537352
- Physical Description: 737 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2017].
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-699) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Dragon Slayer 1 -- 2 "I Had to Win" 18 -- 3 As American as Thanksgiving 42 -- 4 Death, God, Love, and War 65 -- 5 A Kind of Man the Country Needs 80 -- 6 HUAC 93 -- 7 A Tragedy of History 104 -- 8 Pink Lady 129 -- 9 Great Train Robbery 158 -- 10 Checkers 177 -- 11 A Candidate for the Little Man 198 -- 12 McCarthy 210 -- 13 New Nixon 235 -- 14 Desolate Night of Mans Inhumanity 247 -- 15 Field of Pending Battle 260 -- 16 Nixon vs. Kennedy 276 -- 17 Wilderness 294 -- 18 Greatest Comeback 312 -- 19 Nixon's War 347 -- 20 Not Fish nor Fowl 371 -- 21 Drawing the Sword 397 -- 22 Road to Watergate 416 -- 23 Week That Changed the World 435 -- 24 A Third-Rate Burglary 465 -- 25 A Fairly Reasonable Interval 485 -- 26 Cancer on the Presidency 503 -- 27 Final Days 517 -- 28 Exile 534.
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| Marion Library | BIO NIX (Text) | 37810435489769 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Old Fort Branch Library | BIO NIX (Text) | 37810435487706 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | B Nixon (Text) | 31010000581936 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | B NIXON (Text) | 540191011096079 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | B Nixon, Richard (Text) | 0112521415884 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | B NIXON (Text) | 22281500132774 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | B NIXON RIC (Text) | 30372101586573 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Dunn Public Library | B NIXON Far (Text) | 33436001606430 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Eden Library | B Nixon (Text) | 31554010133006 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | B NIXON (Text) | 0020511410423 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
