John A. Farrell, "Nixon"

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www.politics-prose.com/book/9780385537353
Farrell’s political biography charts Nixon’s unusually fast rise to national office, his even more breathtaking fall from it, and examines his legacy on both the domestic and world stages. Farrell, the award-winning author of Clarence Darrow and Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, is also an experienced former White House correspondent, and he combines his biographical and reporting skills to give a detailed picture of an immensely complicated man who left behind a polarized, cynical nation, divided between a Silent Majority and a vocal elite. Yet he was also able to point the way out of the Cold War with his 1972 rapprochement with China.
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13 апр 2017

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Комментарии : 22

@andrewmassanet8289 2 года назад

I lived through Nixon. Farrell's book is essential. Highly recommend it.

@evanarroyo1384 Год назад

Absolutely phenomenal book. It’s simple to read. When I started a chapter i knew that with his writing I was gonna understand it.

@mattiasakemalm1412 Год назад

I agree, though I think some parts are too 'shallow', e. g. Nixon's trip to China, but the book is a very good introduction and gives a picture of the man's psychology.

@inamorata966 9 месяцев назад

I can understand the Nixon-Trump analogy some make. But, while I am far from an expert, I've read much on both. And I boil it all down to this: with Trump, you get a bloody axe, and Donald stands proudly with it for all to see. With Nixon, you get a poisoned cup, and an innocent held up for blame. BTW, intellectually, Trump couldn't hold RN's briefcase.

@ShaneMcBryde 2 года назад

I too really enjoyed this book.

@roc7880 2 года назад

one of main reasons of not relying too much on tapes is that Nixon said many things to elicit emotions from the audience. he said things just to look tough and strong, so tapes without context are dangerous

@johnbaugh2437 7 лет назад

Good book!

@DJTLakeShowLife 7 лет назад

Richard Nixon is definitely a sophisticated personality. He was an insecure introvert, which led him to his demise of the Watergate Scandal. He was a definite intelligent, but sometimes found that wandering during his time in office. He had conflicting ideals of his "peace with honor" in Vietnam, and did eventually lead to an armistice in 1973, but through Operation Menu, led Pol Pot to power in Cambodia. Nixon really is an interesting man, arguably the greatest statesman president of the Cold War, yet domestically, could not rally up his base like a Ronald Reagan. He was a staunch supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, and had a good relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. himself. Nixon's accomplishments is unchallenged: making a less stressful relationship with Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China, and striking détenté with Leonid Breshnev via SALT. However, there are his wavering introverted characteristics which taints his mixed legacy, one of a man who helped end the Cold War, and another which polarized America as no president had before.

@4OHz 2 года назад

Are you quoting the book or planning on writing your own? ; )

@1FriendlyNeighbour 7 лет назад

"Truth under attack"

@user-qm7nw7vd5s 2 года назад

These Nixon haters do not improve with time. They only find new objects of their hate…

@jonchaney 3 года назад

Ugh.!! I’m a democrat. I like nixon. Minority here.

@rmorton8281 5 лет назад

Pictures of haldeman and erlichman in the book are wrong way around

@snappycatchy 5 лет назад

The Johnson library is a monumental concrete banker box.

@roc7880 2 года назад

Nixon was a bundle of contradictions. A much smarter person would have got away without impeachment, but Nixon could not do witthout going through it

@canalesworks1247 6 лет назад

This guy spent way too much time pontificating about Trump for a so called "Nixon historian". I don't expect complete objectivity but based upon his very obvious far left bias I am hesitant to bother with his book. There are plenty of Nixon hit pieces out there. I didn't learn anything about Nixon that I didn't already know from other sources by watching this presentation.

@4OHz 2 года назад

“Pontificating about Trump, Liberal bias?” - maybe you do need to read a book or two.

@fabriceromain1771 5 месяцев назад

Rien à branler de tes conneries moi;où tu fais des enquêtes ou je me désabonner mais tu ne te foutras pas de moi!!!

@Tadicuslegion78 6 лет назад

I read the book...it was like he did the bare minimum research, got the rest from Wikipedia, then rushed through sections and spent way too long on others

@4OHz 2 года назад

Maybe he used Evan Thomas’ book as a primary source...