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Loading... The Contender: Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946 to 1952by Irwin Gellman
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The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new preface Unsurpassed in the fifteen years since its original publication, Irwin F. Gellman's exhaustively researched work is the definitive account of Richard Nixon's rise from political unknown to the verge of achieving the vice-presidency. To document Nixon's congressional career, Gellman combed the files of Nixon's 1946, 1948, and 1950 campaigns, papers from the executive sessions of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and every document dated through 1952 at the Richard Nixon Library. This singular volume corrects many earlier written accounts. For example, there was no secret funding of Nixon's senate campaign in 1950, and Nixon won universal praise for his evenhandedness as a member of HUAC. The first book of a projected five-volume examination of this complex man's entire career, this work stands as the definitive political portrait of Nixon as a fast-rising young political star. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.924092History and Geography North America United States 1901- Eisenhower Through Clinton Administrations Richard Nixon BiographyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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