Being Nixon a man divided
"What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait of an anxious introvert who stru...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Being Nixon : |b a man divided / |c Evan Thomas. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Random House, |c [2015] | |
| 300 | |a xv, 619 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-591) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The fatalistic optimist -- Part I. The striver. -- Lives of great men remind us -- Pat and Dick -- The greenest congressman -- Rock 'em, sock 'em -- Checkers -- "El gringo tiene cojones" -- Jack -- Over the wall we go -- The new Nixon -- October surprise -- Part II. At the mountaintop. -- "He loves being P!" -- Statesman and madman -- "Need for joy" -- Silent majority -- The moviegoer -- Hippies and hardhats -- Department of dirty tricks -- Father of the bride -- "Blow the safe" -- Part III. The fall. -- Big plays -- Speak quietly -- Triumph and tragedy -- "An exciting prospect" -- Peace at last -- Ides of March -- Praying not to wake up -- The Saturday night massacre -- "I hope I haven't let you down" -- "Richard! Wake up!" -- Elder statesman -- Epilogue: Rise again. | |
| 520 | |a "What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait of an anxious introvert who struggled to be a transformative statesman."--Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs. | ||
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