Richard M. Nixon: The American Presidents Collection: The thirty seventh President, 1969-1974

The advanced man on the heart of America’s most self-destructive presidency

On this provocative and revelatory evaluation of the one president ever compelled out of workplace, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon’s troubled inside life provides the important thing to understanding his presidency. She exhibits how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on home points and sometimes wasn’t fascinated by them. Turning to worldwide affairs, she reveals the inside workings of Nixon’s advanced relationship with Henry Kissinger, and their mutual rivalry and mistrust. The Watergate scandal that ended his presidency was without delay an overreach of govt energy and the inevitable results of his paranoia and fervour for vengeance.

Even Nixon’s post-presidential rehabilitation was motivated by a consuming want for respectability, and he succeeded via his exceptional resilience. By means of this e-book we lastly perceive this sophisticated man. Whereas giving him credit score for his achievements, Drew questions whether or not such a person―beleaguered, suspicious, and motivated by resentment and paranoia―was match to carry America’s highest workplace, and raises giant doubts that he was.