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Title:Richard Nixon: The Life
Author:John A. Farrell
Book Format:Kindle Edition
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 786 pages
Published:March 28th 2017 by Doubleday
Categories:Biography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. Presidents
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From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.
 
At the end of WWII, 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 ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell’s magisterial biography of the president who came to embody postwar American resentment and division.
     Within four years of his first victory, Nixon was a U.S. senator; in six, the vice president of the United States of America. “Few came so far, so fast, and so alone,” Farrell writes. Nixon’s sins as a candidate were legion; and in one unlawful secret plot, as Farrell reveals here, Nixon acted to prolong the Vietnam War for his own political purposes. Finally elected president in 1969, Nixon packed his staff with bright young men who devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, welfare, civil rights, and protection of the environment. It was a fine legacy, but Nixon cared little for it. He aspired to make his mark on the world stage instead, and his 1972 opening to China was the first great crack in the Cold War.
     Nixon had another legacy, too: an America divided and polarized. He was elected to end the war in Vietnam, but his bombing of Cambodia and Laos enraged the antiwar movement. It was Nixon who launched the McCarthy era, who played white against black with a “southern strategy,” and spurred the Silent Majority to despise and distrust the country’s elites. Ever insecure and increasingly paranoid, he persuaded Americans to gnaw, as he did, on grievances—and to look at one another as enemies. Finally, in August 1974, after two years of the mesmerizing intrigue and scandal of Watergate, Nixon became the only president to resign in disgrace.
     Richard Nixon is a gripping and unsparing portrayal of our darkest president. Meticulously researched, brilliantly crafted, and offering fresh revelations, it will be hailed as a master work.

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Original Title: Richard Nixon: The Life ASIN B01KUDJ5PW
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Biography (2018), PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2018), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Biography (2017), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)

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Best bio Ive read of Nixon. Really appreciated how the author points out so well that although Watergate was a foolish series of acts, Nixon was held to a much more severe standard than many prior Presidents who engaged in similar conduct. While very flawed in personal respects, Nixon was a truly bright individual who brought tenacity and an iron will to succeed and survive in tumultuous times. He showed us that our hubris can both be harmful and eventually lead to redemption.

Farrell's bio of Nixon is masterful, fluid, incisive and provides a well balanced view of the Californian president. It is filled with insightful quotes from a very wide array of sources ranging from former Nixon biographers, newly declassified material on the Vietnam War to Hunter Thompson, Tip O'Neil, Gerry Ford's personal papers. I loved every page of that book

I loved this book. One of the few biographies I have read that left me wanting more. This book is fast paced and fascinating. I felt the writer was even handed.Amazing how much American history Nixon touched when you consider Nixon was involved in Alger Hiss case, Vice President for 8 years, President for 6 and involved in one of the closest Presidential races in history among other things. This book is a wild ride through some amazing times in Americas history.Highly recommended for anyone

I'm not altogether sure why this book has been getting the rave reviews that I saw before I started reading this book. It's the 4th book (at least) that I've read about Nixon (after books by Jonathan Aitkin, Robert Dallek, and John Dean), and of the 4, this... felt like the worst, to me at least. Maybe it's my fault, but I really don't believe it is.This book is a fuller biography of Nixon's life than any other book I've read since Aitkins, in as much as it starts with his early life, and runs

This is the best, most even handed, informative, and unbiased book on Nixon ever written. The scholarship here in on par with David Herbert Donald's treatment of Lincoln; never focusing on the good or bad, but dispassionately detailing history as it was, and showing each president for who he was as a person.This book clearly shows Nixon outside of the view of the media and also outside of himself: the two main factors that destroyed his presidency.This book opens with perhaps the most detailed

Expertly captures the audacity and intellect of Richard Nixon, and reveals his amorality and character as well as any biographer could be expected to. Thoroughly researched and well organized, with a fast moving, gripping narrative that captures the feeling of the political and social climate of the Cold War Era, this is a very good biography. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because I felt the prose--the author's writing style--was frequently awkward enough to be a tad irritating.

There are similarities to Trump, thus is why I read this. Didn't know much about Nixon, but this book proved as a great intro into his mindset. From my opinion, Trump was and is isolated and detached from reality as a privileged child born into his business, how could he possibly understand low to middle class America. Nixon however grew up from nothing but was slowly ruined by politics of the time due to his insecurities and introvert personality.To me, this read like a tv drama at times. Felt