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"At the end of World War II, navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994.
Nixon, Richard M > Richard Milhous, > 1913-1994.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Presidents.
Politics and government.
United States.
1969-1974
Biographies.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The dragon slayer
  • "I had to win"
  • As American as Thanksgiving
  • Death, God, love, and war
  • A kind of man the country needs
  • HUAC
  • A tragedy of history
  • The Pink Lady
  • The Great Train Robbery
  • Checkers
  • A candidate for the little man
  • McCarthy
  • The new Nixon
  • The desolate night of man's inhumanity
  • The field of pending battle
  • Nixon vs. Kennedy
  • Wilderness
  • The greatest comeback
  • Nixon's war
  • Not fish nor fowl
  • Drawing the sword
  • The road to Watergate
  • The week that changed the world
  • A third-rate burglary
  • A fairly reasonable interval
  • Cancer on the presidency
  • The final days
  • Exile.