Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full

Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full

by Conrad Black
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full

Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full

by Conrad Black

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Overview

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now separates the good in Nixon -- his foreign initiatives, some of his domestic policies, and his firm political hand -- from the sinister, in a book likely to generate enormous attention and controversy.

Black believes the hounding of Nixon from office was partly political retribution from a lifetime's worth of enemies and Nixon's misplaced loyalty to unworthy subordinates, and not clearly the consequence of crimes in which he participated. Conrad Black's own recent legal travails, though hardly comparable, have undoubtedly given him an unusual insight into the pressures faced by Nixon in his last two years as president and the first few years of his retirement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786727032
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 10/23/2008
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
Sales rank: 327,300
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Conrad Black was the chairman and chief executive officer of Hollinger International Inc., among whose newspaper holdings are the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator in London, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of two previous books published in Canada and became a member of the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour in 2001. He divides his time between London, Toronto, and New York.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     IX
The Meteoric Rise: 1913-1953     1
One of the Common People: 1913-1945     3
Into the Arena: 1945-1950     75
Vertical Ascent: 1950-1952     145
The Travails of the Fox: 1952-1953     209
The Ordeal of Ambition: 1953-1968     269
The Chief Apprentice: 1953-1956     271
The Regent and the Striver: 1956-1959     321
Defeat and Endurance: 1959-1963     376
The Triumph of Survival: 1963-1968     444
The Pursuit of Peace: 1968-1972     509
Tumult and Victory: 1968-1969     511
The Silent Majority: 1969-1970     577
Calming the Nation: 1970-1971     642
Waging Peace: 1971-1972     703
The Indestructible Man and Myth: 1972-     773
The Pinnacle: 1972     775
The Precipice: 1972-1973     846
The Inferno: 1973-1974     913
The Transfiguration: 1974-1994     987
Notes     1061
Bibliography     1095
Index     1108
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