Nixon Agonistes The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
| Author/creator | Wills, Garry, 1934- Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Description | 633 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Summary | Annotation With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews).Arguing that Nixon was a reflection of the country that elected him, Wills examines not only the psychology of the man himself and his relationships with others--from his wife, Pat, to his vice-president, Spiro Agnew--but also the state of the nation at the time, mired in the Vietnam War and experiencing a cultural rift that pitted the young against the old. Putting his findings into moral, economic, intellectual, and political contexts, he ultimately "paints a broad and provocative landscape of the nation's--and Nixon's--travails" (The New York Times).Simultaneously compassionate and critical, and raising interesting perspectives on the shifting definitions of terms like "conservative" and "liberal" over recent decades, Nixon Agonistes is a brilliant and indispensable book from one of America's most acclaimed historians. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781504045407 |
| ISBN | 1504045408 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781504045407 |
| Stock number | 01521375 |
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