Nixon Agonistes

Download Nixon Agonistes full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Nixon Agonistes ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Nixon Agonistes

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504045408
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Nixon Agonistes by : Garry Wills

Download or read book Nixon Agonistes written by Garry Wills and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nixon Agonistes

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Cherokee Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780877971986
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Nixon Agonistes by : Garry Wills

Download or read book Nixon Agonistes written by Garry Wills and published by Cherokee Pub. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nixon at the Movies

Author : Mark Feeney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226239705
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Nixon at the Movies by : Mark Feeney

Download or read book Nixon at the Movies written by Mark Feeney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “People will be arguing over Nixon at the Movies as much as, for more than half a century, the country at large has been arguing about Nixon.”—Greil Marcus Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913, and they shared a long and complex history. The president screened Patton multiple times before and during the invasion of Cambodia, for example. In this unique blend of political biography, cultural history, and film criticism, Mark Feeney recounts in detail Nixon’s enthusiastic viewing habits during his presidency, and takes a new and often revelatory approach to Nixon’s career and Hollywood’s, seeing aspects of Nixon’s character, and the nation’s, refracted and reimagined in film. Nixon at the Movies is a “virtuosic” examination of a man, a culture, and a country in a time of tumult (Slate). “By Feeney's count, Nixon, an unabashed film buff, watched more than 500 movies during the 67 months of his presidency, all carefully listed in an appendix titled ‘What the President Saw and When He Saw It.’ Nixon concentrated intently on whatever was on the screen; he refused to leave even if the picture was a dud and everyone around him was restless. He was omnivorous, would watch anything, though he did have his preferences…Only rarely did he watch R-rated or foreign films. He liked happy endings. Movies were obviously a means of escape for him, and as the Watergate noose tightened, he spent ever more time in the screening room.”—The New York Times

King Richard

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385350090
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis King Richard by : Michael Dobbs

Download or read book King Richard written by Michael Dobbs and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF USA TODAY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president—from the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight. In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. He enjoyed an almost 70 percent approval rating. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called “a full-blown cancer.” King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate conspiracy unraveled as the burglars and their handlers turned on one another, exposing the crimes of a vengeful president. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the heart of the conspiracy, recreating these traumatic events in cinematic detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the noose tightens around them. We eavesdrop on Nixon plotting with his aides, raging at his enemies, while also finding time for affectionate moments with his family. The result is an unprecedentedly vivid, close-up portrait of a president facing his greatest crisis. Central to the spellbinding drama is the tortured personality of Nixon himself, a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all costs, become his fatal flaws. Rising from poverty to become the most powerful man in the world, he commits terrible errors of judgment that lead to his public disgrace. He makes himself—and then destroys himself. Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, King Richard is an epic, deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.

Reagan's America

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504045416
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reagan's America by : Garry Wills

Download or read book Reagan's America written by Garry Wills and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan” from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times). Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America’s fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan’s life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to his role as commander in chief—and examines the powerful myths surrounding him, many of which he created himself. Praised by some for his sunny optimism and old-fashioned rugged individualism, derided by others for being a politician out of touch with reality, Reagan was both a popular and polarizing figure in the 1980s United States, and continues to fascinate us as a symbol. In Reagan’s America, Garry Wills reveals the realities behind Reagan’s own descriptions of his idyllic boyhood, as well as the story behind his leadership of the Screen Actors Guild, the role religion played in his thinking, and the facts of his military service. With a wide-ranging and balanced assessment of both the personal and political life of this outsize American icon, the author of such acclaimed works as What Jesus Meant and The Kennedy Imprisonment “elegantly dissects the first U.S. President to come out of Hollywood’s dream factory [in] a fascinating biography whose impact is enhanced by techniques of psychological profile and social history” (Los Angeles Times).

In Search of Nixon

Author : Bruce Mazlish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135151301X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis In Search of Nixon by : Bruce Mazlish

Download or read book In Search of Nixon written by Bruce Mazlish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor a clinical psychoanalysis, at the time of its initial publication, In Search of Nixon launched a new genre of scholarship; the "psycho-historical inquiry." Mazlish offers insight into the subtle interplay between Nixon the man and Nixon the public figure.Why, for example, did Nixon have such personal difficulties in making decisions? Knowing how the young Nixon learned to cope with the problems of his childhood, what can we infer about his unpredictable decisions on Communist China, inflation, and the Supreme Court? Bruce Mazlish applies psychoanalysis to history in order to understand Nixon's behaviour, decisions, and political stance. He explains why Nixon characteristically projected personal crises onto the political arenaas, for example, in the famous Checkers speech, or in the Haynsworth-Carswell affair. And he examines why, conversely, political questions such as pacifism, abortion, and subversion had such a peculiarly personal meaning for him.

Lincoln at Gettysburg

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126453
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Lincoln at Gettysburg by : Garry Wills

Download or read book Lincoln at Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

American Maelstrom

Author : Michael A. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019977756X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Maelstrom by : Michael A. Cohen

Download or read book American Maelstrom written by Michael A. Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Maelstrom, Michael A. Cohen captures the full drama of this watershed election, establishing 1968 as the hinge between the decline of political liberalism and the ascendancy of conservative populism and the anti-government attitudes that continue to dominate the nation's political discourse, taking us to the source of the politics of division.

Richard M. Nixon

Author : Elizabeth Drew
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 142998127X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Richard M. Nixon by : Elizabeth Drew

Download or read book Richard M. Nixon written by Elizabeth Drew and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency In this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on domestic issues and often wasn't interested in them. Turning to international affairs, she reveals the inner workings of Nixon's complex relationship with Henry Kissinger, and their mutual rivalry and distrust. The Watergate scandal that ended his presidency was at once an overreach of executive power and the inevitable result of his paranoia and passion for vengeance. Even Nixon's post-presidential rehabilitation was motivated by a consuming desire for respectability, and he succeeded through his remarkable resilience. Through this book we finally understand this complicated man. While giving him credit for his achievements, Drew questions whether such a man—beleaguered, suspicious, and motivated by resentment and paranoia—was fit to hold America's highest office, and raises large doubts that he was.

John Wayne's America

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129576
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Wayne's America by : Garry Wills

Download or read book John Wayne's America written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality—the biography of an idea—Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our cultoure to a degree unmatched by any other public figure of his time. In Wills's hands, Waynes story is tranformed into a compelling narrative about the intersection of popular entertainment and political realities in mid-twentieth-century America.

The Second Civil War-Arming for Armageddon

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Second Civil War-Arming for Armageddon by : Garry Wills

Download or read book The Second Civil War-Arming for Armageddon written by Garry Wills and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Behind the Backlash

Author : Kenneth D. Durr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862371
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Behind the Backlash by : Kenneth D. Durr

Download or read book Behind the Backlash written by Kenneth D. Durr and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challenging notions that the "white backlash" of the 1960s and 1970s was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr details the rise of a working-class populism shaped by mistrust of the means and ends of postwar liberalism in the face of urban decline. Exploring the effects of desegregation, deindustrialization, recession, and the rise of urban crime, Durr shows how legitimate economic, social, and political grievances convinced white working-class Baltimoreans that they were threatened more by the actions of liberal policymakers than by the incursions of urban blacks. While acknowledging the parochialism and racial exclusivity of white working-class life, Durr adopts an empathetic view of workers and their institutions. Behind the Backlash melds ethnic, labor, and political history to paint a rich portrait of urban life--and the sweeping social and economic changes that reshaped America's cities and politics in the late twentieth century.

Being Nixon

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812985419
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Being Nixon by : Evan Thomas

Download or read book Being Nixon written by Evan Thomas and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark New York Times bestselling biography of Richard M. Nixon, a political savant whose gaping character flaws would drive him from the presidency and forever taint his legacy. “A biography of eloquence and breadth . . . No single volume about Nixon’s long and interesting life could be so comprehensive.”—Chicago Tribune One of Time’s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year In this revelatory biography, Evan Thomas delivers a radical, unique portrait of America’s thirty-seventh president, Richard Nixon, a contradictory figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its “silent majority” of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft. The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, Nixon was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. He possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving “Checkers” speech; meanwhile, Nixon’s darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname “Tricky Dick.” Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomas’s biography reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve détente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal. A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, Being Nixon offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness—a balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature. Praise for Being Nixon “Terrifically engaging . . . a fair, insightful and highly entertaining portrait.”—The Wall Street Journal “Thomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable.”—The New York Times Book Review

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Author : John B. Judis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743217977
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis William F. Buckley, Jr. by : John B. Judis

Download or read book William F. Buckley, Jr. written by John B. Judis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of William F. Buckley who founded modern American conservatism, started The National Review, and influenced a generation of politicians.

Inventing America

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385542836
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Inventing America by : Garry Wills

Download or read book Inventing America written by Garry Wills and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" —(Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)

The Incomplete Book of Running

Author : Peter Sagal
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451696256
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Incomplete Book of Running by : Peter Sagal

Download or read book The Incomplete Book of Running written by Peter Sagal and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares “commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you” (Susan Orlean). On the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal—brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radio—started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the United States and the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before the bombings. In The Incomplete Book of Running, Sagal reflects on the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled, from the humorous absurdity of running charity races in his underwear—in St. Louis, in February—or attempting to “quiet his colon” on runs around his neighborhood—to the experience of running as a guide to visually impaired runners, and the triumphant post-bombing running of the Boston Marathon in 2014. With humor and humanity, Sagal also writes about the emotional experience of running, body image, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy of running as passed down from parent to child, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. The result is “a brilliant book about running…What Peter runs toward is strength, understanding, endurance, acceptance, faith, hope, and charity” (P.J. O’Rourke).

Lead Time

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618446902
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Lead Time by : Garry Wills

Download or read book Lead Time written by Garry Wills and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential Garry Wills, Lead Time offers a provocative view of a pivotal era in America from one of our most esteemed historians. In this collection of essays, written between 1968 and 1982, Wills explores American culture, politics, and mores, and demonstrates his astute and always interesting approach to his subjects, including Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Muhammad Ali, Pope John Paul II, and Ronald Reagan. Newly reissued with a new preface, this is a must-read from "a mind that likes to range beyond the usual boundaries of periodical journalism" (New York Times).