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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Evan, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974.
Biographies.
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 cajones"
  • Jack
  • Over the wall we go
  • The new Nixon
  • October surprise
  • Part II. At the mountaintop
  • "He loves being P!"
  • Statesman and mad man
  • "Need for joy"
  • Silent majority
  • The movie goer
  • 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
  • Saturday Night Massacre
  • "I hope I haven't let you down"
  • "Richard! Wake up!"
  • Elder statesman
  • Epilogue: Rise again.