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Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F. Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time. Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative, groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. More than thirty years after working side-by-side in the White House, Richard...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to Richard Nixon including his military service, early political career, and key events from Nixon's administration including his debates with John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and his resignation. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included." -- Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Draws on recently declassified documents to chronicle one of the most disastrous presidencies in U.S. history, presenting a portrait of a brilliant man overcome by his deep insecurities and his distrust of his cabinet, Congress, and the American people.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting 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 quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Twenty five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My felllow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Utilizing archive footage and newly-released White House tapes, this film profiles Nixon and presidency. Includes segments on ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War; forging peacekeeping relations with the Soviet Union, China, and the Middle East; implementing social and environmental initiatives; and Watergate.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms. Nixon...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Kissinger recalls ... his first meeting with Nixon, his secret trip to China, the first SALT negotiation, the Jordan crisis of 1970, the India-Pakistan war of 1971 ... the historic summit meetings in Peking and Moscow ... events in Laos, the overthrow of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, his secret talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris, his "peace is at hand" news conference ... the Christmas bombing of 1972 ... Middle East conflicts, Sadat's break...
16) Richard M. Nixon
Author
Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive biography of the life and political successes and failures of former President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, that describes the events that eventually led to his resignation.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"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 tragically flawed. The New York Times bestselling author of Ike���s Bluff and Sea of Thunder, Thomas brings new life to one of American history���s most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians, dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate and evenhanded look...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called "a full-blown cancer." King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate burglars and their handlers in the administration turned on one another,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental meeting--during what Nixon called "the week that changed...