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Brilliantly explored, authoritatively crafted by way of a prize-winning biographer, this is the Nixon we've been looking forward to. Richard Nixon opens with young navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a much better world. Yet amid the turns of that now famous 1946 advertising campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly offered way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It is a stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial family portrait of a guy who embodied postwar American cynicism. Within four years of that first win, Nixon will be a US senator, in six the vice chief executive of the United States of America. "Few emerged so far, so fast, and so exclusively," Farrell writes. Finally chief executive, Nixon's personnel was full of bright young men who devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, poverty, civil rights, and coverage of the surroundings. It was a fine legacy, but Nixon cared little for it. He aspired to make his mark on the planet stage instead, and his 1972 opening to China was the first great split in the Cool War. Nixon had another legacy, too: an America divided and polarized. It had been Nixon who launched the McCarthy time, who place South against North, and who spurred the silent majority to despise and distrust the country's elites. He persuaded Us citizens to gnaw, as he have, on grievances - and also to look at each other as opponents. Finally, in August 1974, after two years of the mesmerizing intrigue and scandal known as Watergate, Nixon became the one chief executive to resign in disgrace. Richard Nixon can be an enthralling tour de drive biography in our darkest president, the one which reviewers will hail as a defining family portrait, and the full life of Nixon listeners have anticipated.
