Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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The landmark New York Times bestselling biography of Richard M. Nixon, a political savant whose gaping character flaws would drive him from the presidency and forever taint his legacy.ย
โA biography of eloquence and breadth . . . No single volume about Nixonโs long and interesting life could be so comprehensive.โโChicago Tribune
One of Timeโs Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year
In this revelatory biography, Evan Thomas delivers a radical, unique portrait of Americaโs thirty-seventh president, Richard Nixon, a contradictory figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its โsilent majorityโ of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft.
The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, Nixon was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. He possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving โCheckersโ speech; meanwhile, Nixonโs darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname โTricky Dick.โ Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomasโs biography reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve dรฉtente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal.
A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, Being Nixon offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousnessโa balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature.
Praise for Being Nixon
โTerrifically engaging . . . a fair, insightful and highly entertaining portrait.โโThe Wall Street Journal
โThomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable.โโThe New York Times Book Review
โA biography of eloquence and breadth . . . No single volume about Nixonโs long and interesting life could be so comprehensive.โโChicago Tribune
One of Timeโs Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year
In this revelatory biography, Evan Thomas delivers a radical, unique portrait of Americaโs thirty-seventh president, Richard Nixon, a contradictory figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its โsilent majorityโ of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft.
The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, Nixon was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. He possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving โCheckersโ speech; meanwhile, Nixonโs darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname โTricky Dick.โ Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomasโs biography reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve dรฉtente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal.
A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, Being Nixon offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousnessโa balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature.
Praise for Being Nixon
โTerrifically engaging . . . a fair, insightful and highly entertaining portrait.โโThe Wall Street Journal
โThomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable.โโThe New York Times Book Review
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Evan Thomas is the author of nine books: The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ikeโs Bluff, and Being Nixon. John Paul Jones and Sea of Thunder were New York Times bestsellers. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years (1986โ96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweekโs fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Report, and has been a guest on PBSโs Charlie Rose more than forty times. The author of dozens of book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.
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