Full name: Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

Author: Garry Wills Year: 1969 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Politics, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618134328 0618134328

From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader and a struggling nation mired in a foolish Asian war, forfeiting the loyalty of its youth, puzzled by its own power, and looking to its cautious president for confidence. In the end, Nixon Agonistes reaches far beyond its assessment of the thirty-seventh president to become an incisive and provocative analysis of the American political machine. Similar books: The Arrogance of Power by Anthony Summers Nixon and Kissinger by Robert Dallek Richard M. Nixon by Elizabeth Drew Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 by Stephen E. Ambrose Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 by Stephen E. Ambrose The Survivor by John F. Harris Abuse of Power by Stanley Kutler American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton Leaders by Richard Nixon Breach of Faith by Theodore H. White One Man Against the World by Tim Weiner In the Arena by Richard Nixon Reagan's America by Garry Wills All the Presidents' Children by Doug Wead Kennedy and Nixon by Christopher J. Matthews Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills Bomb Power by Garry Wills John Wayne's America by Garry Wills Inventing America by Garry Wills Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow