Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. In Being Nixon, Evan Thomas peels away the layers of the complex, confounding figure who became America's thirty-seventh president. What drove a painfully shy outcast in elite Washington society-a man so self-conscious he refused to make eye contact during meetings-to pursue power and public office? How did a president so attuned to the American political id that he won reelection in a historic landslide lack the self-awareness to recognize the gaping character flaws that would drive him from office and forever taint his legacy? Dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate and evenhanded look at the actual man, Evan Thomas delivers the best single-volume biography of Nixon to date, a radical, unique portrait of a complicated figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. The New York Times bestselling author of Ike's Bluff and Sea of Thunder brings new life to one of American history's most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians: Richard Nixon.
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