President Nixon: Alone in the White House
by Richard Reeves
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"Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president. In President Nixon, Richard Reeves has used thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes - including Nixon's tortured memos to himself and unpublished sections of H.R. Haldeman's diaries - to offer a nuanced and surprising portrait of the brilliant and contradictory man alone in the White House."--Jacket.Tags
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This is a startlingly detailed account of Richard Nixon's presidency, but very rarely does it drag.
What is striking is how something like the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down seemed almost bound to happen. Very early on, dishonesty and distrust were the order of the day in the Nixon White House. From that, the Watergate break-in and cover-up were almost natural follow-ons.
Recommended.
What is striking is how something like the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down seemed almost bound to happen. Very early on, dishonesty and distrust were the order of the day in the Nixon White House. From that, the Watergate break-in and cover-up were almost natural follow-ons.
Recommended.
I was afraid it might breed sympathy for the devil but instead it just ga e me a clearer picture
Not possible to read enough about President Nixon
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Richard Reeves is a syndicated columnist and teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He lives in Washington, D.C. and New York. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Richard M. Nixon; H. R. Haldeman; Henry Kissinger; John Ehrlichman
- Important places
- Washington, D.C., USA; White House, Washington, D.C., USA
- Dedication
- This book is for my father, the HONORABLE FURMAN W. REEVES
- First words
- Chapter 1: January 21, 1969
Richard M. Nixon arrived at the White House just before 2PM on January 20, 1969, a couple of hours after taking the oath as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. His first question, to his chief of staff, H. R. H... (show all)aldeman, was "Is the dog there?" - Blurbers
- Bradlee, Ben; Brooks, David; Isaacson, Walter; Maraniss, David; Woodward, Bob
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.924 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001) Richard Nixon (1969-1974) Watergate Scandal, U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam
- LCC
- E856 .R44 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Nixon's administrations, 1969-August 9, 1974
- BISAC
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- Reviews
- 3
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- (3.61)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 3
