Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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- Jun 15, 2015
- #Biography #Politics
Evan Thomas delivers the best single-volume biography of Richard Nixon to date, a radical, unique portrait of a complicated figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragicall...
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Number of Pages: 640
ISBN: 0812995368
ISBN-13: 9780812995367
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Bill Gates @BillGates
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Dec 7, 2015
- Curated in The best books I read in 2015
Former U.S. president Richard Nixon is often portrayed as little more than a crook and a war monger. So it was refreshing to see a more balanced account in Being Nixon, by author and journalist Evan Thomas. I wouldn’t call it a sympathetic portrait—in many ways, Nixon was a deeply unsympathetic person—but it is an empathetic one. Rather than just focusing on Nixon’s presidency, Thomas takes a cradle-to-the-grave approach and gives you sharp insights into the inner workings of a brilliant, flawed, and conflicted man.