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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New York :
Random House,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
