Nixon: A LifeThe rise, fall, and rebirth of Richard Nixon is perhaps the most fascinating story in American politics—and perhaps the most misunderstood. Nixon: A Life is the first entirely objective biography of Richard Nixon. Former British Defense Minister Jonathan Aitken conducted over sixty hours of interviews with the impeached former president and was granted unprecedented access to thousands of pages of Nixon’s previously sealed private documents. Nixon reveals to Aitken why he didn’t burn the Watergate tapes, how he felt when he resigned the presidency, his driving spiritual beliefs, and more. Nixon: A Life breaks important new ground as a major work of political biography, inspiring historians to recognize the outstanding diplomatic achievements of a man whose journey from tainted politician to respected foreign policy expert and elder statesman was nothing short of remarkable. |
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... debating as an eleven-year-old sixth grader. He was not a popular boy, regarded as prickly and aggressive—particularly by the girls, who nicknamed him 'Gloomy Gus'. He did not seem to like them much either. Almost * Described in his ...
... debating as an eleven-year-old sixth grader. He was not a popular boy, regarded as prickly and aggressive—particularly by the girls, who nicknamed him 'Gloomy Gus'. He did not seem to like them much either. Almost * Described in his ...
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... debating. In the beginning, his father was his coach. At his first ever school debating contest, in 1923, ten-year-old Richard won the motion 'That it is more economical to rent a house than to buy one', using a how-to-outwit-the ...
... debating. In the beginning, his father was his coach. At his first ever school debating contest, in 1923, ten-year-old Richard won the motion 'That it is more economical to rent a house than to buy one', using a how-to-outwit-the ...
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... debate coach. Sheller also fuelled the Nixon mind with an imaginative introduction to the great works of English literature, including those by Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, Gibbon and Shakespeare. Unusually for a schoolboy, Richard ...
... debate coach. Sheller also fuelled the Nixon mind with an imaginative introduction to the great works of English literature, including those by Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, Gibbon and Shakespeare. Unusually for a schoolboy, Richard ...
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... debating team; the college orchestra and student politics, all won his participation and sometimes his passionate commitment. As he still had to do his shopkeeping duties at the family store, his schedule became impossibly crowded. Far ...
... debating team; the college orchestra and student politics, all won his participation and sometimes his passionate commitment. As he still had to do his shopkeeping duties at the family store, his schedule became impossibly crowded. Far ...
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... debate in front of the entire student body in the Poets' Theater. It was Nixon's first debate where a political position was at stake. He prepared his speech meticulously and won the election by a landslide. Analysing his defeat ...
... debate in front of the entire student body in the Poets' Theater. It was Nixon's first debate where a political position was at stake. He prepared his speech meticulously and won the election by a landslide. Analysing his defeat ...
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