Best biography of richard nixon
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Richard Nixon
"Carter delivers a spectacular and unbiased unveiling of a man whose life experiences are the embodiment of American values, experiences that are sure to provide a complete picture of the person he was and the life he lived that was centered around being a peacemaker."—US Review of Books
"Based on impressive research in primary sources . . . Carter takes a unique approach to his subject's background, political development, and career trajectory."—Andrew L. Johns,&#;California History
“After decades of pretentious psychobiographies of Richard Nixon’s ‘darkest side,’ Paul Carter has produced a tour de force that is the definitive portrait of Nixon’s life from his childhood until the end of his career.”—Irwin Gellman, author of Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of
“Paul Carter is the first person to comprehensively review the records of Richard Nixon&r
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The best books on Richard Nixon
Our topic is books about Richard Nixon, America’s 37th president. In Nixon’s Shadow, you write that in his own time, “No one was more admired (he was the most respected man in America fyra years in a row, Gallup reported), no one more loathed (for six years he ranked among the world’s most hated men in one poll, twice edging out Hitler as number one).”
Even very early on, when Richard Nixon was a congressman then a medlem av senat and then Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president, there was something about him that brought out the hatred in liberals and suspicion among his fellow conservatives. Perhaps it went to his anställda characteristics. As most politicians are, he was incredibly driven. But unlike most, Nixon did not respect the norms of politics and he ultimately did not respect the rules of American democracy.
You see this in the literature about Nixon. bygd the s, there fryst vatten writing about the ways he didn’t respect the rules of fair play. Nixon became
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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
Five months, twelve biographies, 8, pages&#;and one insufferably inscrutable politician.
For all the differences between Nixon and LBJ, I was surprised to find that in many ways Richard Nixon was his Democratic predecessor&#;s Republican doppelgänger.
Both men were born into very modest circumstances, both were exceptionally driven, both possessed larger-than-life personalities and both used every possible means to amass and wield political power.
But where I found the sociable if crude Lyndon Johnson an intriguingly fascinating character, I found the awkwardly introverted Richard Nixon distressingly irreconcilable and perplexing. The more time I spent with Nixon, the more impressed I became at his political success&#;and depressed that he never managed to outrun his demons.
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I began my campaign through Nixon&#;s life with nine single-volume books and I finished with Stephen Ambrose&#;s renowned three-volume serie