Richard Nixon: The Life
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06VVVR7F2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 131 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Conan said Brilliant biography. One of the best, if not the best, I've ever read. One of the most wrenching, sympathetic biographies I've ever read. A profoundly insightful and human portrait of a great president and human being whose troubled upbringing and personality traits led him to a political and psychological corner. As someone who finds Nixon more interesting, intelligent and admirable than most authors paint him I was surprised at the clear-minded and a. "The Tragedy of the Presidency" according to Richard C. Geschke. Up until I read Richard Nixon The Life, I really didn’t know much about the man. I knew of him as being the Vice President for Eisenhower and the man who lost the 1960 Presidential election to JFK. Later he lost the California Governor’s race in 1962 and rebounded to win the Presidential election in both 1968 and 1972. What the author John A. Farrell brings to the table . "A Comprehensive Overview of a Complex American" according to Amazon Customer. John Farrell's biography of Richard Nixon plumbs the complexities of this flawed, Shakespearean character. His was a true rags to riches life, starting out in hard-scrabble Yorba Linda, CA and rising to the heights of power as President of the United States and then falling from grace as the ultimate driver of the Watergate cover-up, only to be rehabilitated as a foreign policy sage
Nixon had another legacy, too: an America divided and polarized. He persuaded Americans to gnaw, as he did, on grievances - and to look at one another as enemies. It is a stunning overture to John A. 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. Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. 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. "Few came so far, so fast, and so alone," Farrell writes. 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. 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. Richard Nixon is an enthrallin