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Who was Richard Nixon?The most amaxing thing about the man was not what he did as president,but that he became president at all.Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered of declassifited documents and tapes,Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a surprising portrait of a brilliant and contradictory man.
"I have decided my major role is moral leadership," Nixon wrote in 1972 in one of his myriad memos to himself. (As Reeves writes, "Whatever else he accomplished, Richard Nixon produced more paper and tape than any president before or since.") That resolution quickly collapsed; instead, as the Vietnam War shaded into defeat and protests at home mounted, Nixon sank into a siege mentality, seeing himself as a lone crusader at war with the rest of the world. Reeves examines the cat-and-mouse quality of Nixon's relations with his inner circle and family, as well as the excruciating collapse of national leadership in the wake of missteps, miscalculations, and sheer crimes. Rigorous and thoughtful, Reeves's book adds much to our understanding of Nixon's troubled presidency--and of his troubled soul. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

作者简介：RICHARD REEVES is the author of President Kennddy:Profile of Power,acclaimed as the authoritative volume on that presidency and named Non-Fiction Book of the Year by Time in 1993.He is a syndicated columnist and winner of the 1998 American Political Science Association's Carey McWlliams Prize.His documentary films have won Emmy,Columbia DuPont,and Peabody awards.