A01=Richard Nixon
Alger Hiss
Author_Richard Nixon
Bretton Woods Conference
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Checkers speech
Christopher Hitchens
Communism
Containment
Daniel Ellsberg
Decolonization
Demagogue
Donald Hiss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Espionage
Espionage Agent
Foreign policy
Freedom of speech
George W. Bush
Grand jury
Great power
Great Society
H. R. Haldeman
Hatchet man (politics)
Henry Kissinger
Ho Chi Minh
House Un-American Activities Committee
Impeachment
Imperial Ambitions
Isolationism
Joe McGinniss
John Ehrlichman
John F. Kennedy
John Sirica
Joseph Alsop
Kitchen Debate
Liberal elite
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mark Felt
National security
Nikita Khrushchev
North Vietnam
Our Choice
Peaceful coexistence
Perjury
Prosecutor
Red Star Over China
Richard Nixon
Rick Perlstein
Sherman Adams
Silent majority
Six Crises
South Vietnam
Soviet Union
Stanley Kutler
Superiority (short story)
That Justice Be Done
The Conscience of a Conservative
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Totalitarianism
Un-American
United States Department of State
Viet Cong
Vietnamization
Warfare
Watergate scandal
What Happened
White House horrors
White House Plumbers
Whittaker Chambers
Woodrow Wilson
World War II
Worse than Watergate
Product details
- ISBN 9780691136998
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life. This volume gathers everything from schoolboy letters to geostrategic manifestos and Oval Office transcripts to create a fascinating portrait of Nixon, one that is enriched by an extensive introduction in which Rick Perlstein puts forward a major reinterpretation of the thirty-seventh president's rise and fall. This anthology includes some of the most famous addresses in American history, from Nixon's "Checkers" speech (1952) and "Last Press Conference" (1962), to the "Silent Majority" speech (1969) and White House farewell. These texts are joined by campaign documents--including the infamous "Pink Sheet" from the 1950 Senate race--that give stark evidence of Nixon's slashing political style. Made easily available here for the first time, these writings give new depth to our understanding of Nixon.
Rick Perlstein is the author of "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" (Scribner) and "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" (Hill & Wang), which won the "Los Angeles Times" book prize. He has written for many publications, including the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post".
