About this title: This biography of Richard M. Nixon focuses on the darker side of his character and argues against the "revisionist" view of Nixon as an elder statesman of merit. Summers's book contains disturbing revelations about Nixon's conduct, asserting that there is information that Nixon was a wife beater and that he misused prescription drugs while in the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 09/2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 640 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 09/2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 640 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 640 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: HB w/DJ, Viking, New York, 2000, ISBN#0670871516, with facsimile photos. Black paper on boards with black backstrip is showing light shelf wear, slight crease to backstrip, slight spine slant, owner's book plate on fep, DJ is very lightly rubbed, contents are bright, clean and very tight. Very Good in Good DJ. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780140260786ISBN:0140260781
Description: Good. 8vo. {007441} The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon by Anthony Summers. ISBN 0140260781. Published by Viking Penguin in 2001. TRADE PAPERBACK 8vo Biography {Book Condition} GOOD {Book Condition Details} Binding: slightly frayed ends, Cover: scuffing, soiled, edge wear, soiling, creasing on Spine, creasing, scuffing, Text: light tanning, minor creasing. {Keywords} NIXON RICHARD M MILHOUS 1913. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780670871513ISBN:0670871516
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"Nixon was the most disturbed person to serve as President and surely in the top 5 list of worst presidents. At at time when some writers were trying to resuscitate Nixon's reputation, Anthony Summers wrote this biography to remind the world of Nixon's crimes and bring up many other things that you might not have known.
Nixon is synonymous with Watergate, but I think his greater crimes are 1) sabotaging Johnson's Viet Nam peace proposals before the 1968 election promising South Viet Nam that he would give them a better deal if they refused to come to the peace talks, 2) extending the bombing into Cambodia, destabilizing the government leading to the bloodbath of the Khmer Rouge, and 3) green-lighting the coup in Chile, toppling and killing the democratically elected Allende, supporting the dictatorship of Pinochet. Nixon as Vice President also had an influence in some of the bad decisions of the Eisenhower administration, like the overturning of democratic elections in Guatemala and Iran and the Bay of Pigs planning that Kennedy inherited. And let's not forget that he was 2nd only to McCarthy as a communist red-baiter in the 50's.
Summers does give credit to Nixon for the SALT II talks, détente and going to China in a mere few sentences, but the majority of this book is a reminder of what happens when we elect a truly black-hearted person to the highest office in the land."
"This book amazed me. I actually couldn't put it down which was a bummer because it's a big, heavy book and bringing it with me everywhere was a pain. I am fascinated by Nixon - corrupt to the bone, totally ruthless and also brilliant. His psychiatrist thought he was insane and there are unsettling descriptions of the Secret Service chasing him through the White House trying to tackle him mid-freakout. Of course, after GW Bush, he doesn't seem so damaging to the country but he was, obviously. A bizarre character."
"First off, I will confess I didn't complete this book. I find Nixon a fascinating figure but I found the style to be somewhat hysterical, along the lines of biographers like Albert Goldman. The author is so determined to show that Nixon was a sleazebag in every way possible that he winds up relying on a lot of hearsay ("Joe Smith said Nixon once kicked a dog, according to his valet Chet Jones") and makes some bold claims with little evidence (the fact that Nixon beat his wife, for instance). Nixon did so much awful stuff which is on the record it got a little tiresome seeing him strain to find new dirt."
"A truly hard look at Nixon's life and what influenced him, being as important for hour history as what he influenced. He was from the first, out of Duke Law School, a creature of double-dealing and coruuption with close ties to the incestuous family of intelligence and organized crime (grown strong since prohibition). His conventional legacy and 'place in history' is evidence of his PR successes (bought and paid for) and a reflection of our self-hating need for heroes whatever the cost."
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