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Title: Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg ISBN: 0-393-04896-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 06 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: Nixon's Shadow sheds light on Nixon's life and legacy--and it opens up a fascinating world on the civic life of the United States. It's one of the best books I've read in a long, long time.
What I love about most this book is that it tells Nixon's story through the eyes of his critics and the lens of his detractors. In doing so, Greenberg opens up a whole new way, really, of thinking about our politics. The book marks a major contribution to the Nixon literature as well as a shrewd, detailed portrait of the rise of image-making in 20th century America.
By focusing on the forces that led to Nixon's rise and fall, Greenberg shows us how images in politics aren't simply products created by a candidate--they are, in fact, the result of complex forces in our culture and our politics. This book goes to the heart of our civic life. It is one of the most fascinating take our politics that I've ever had the pleasure to read--and one of the best-written non-fiction books to come down the pike in recent memory.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Three (Four and Five) Faces of Dick Nixon
Comment: Was Richard Nixon the second coming of Hitler or the last great liberal president? Or, most likely, the greatest transformation artist since Lon Chaney? With all the spinning by Nixon and his foes, it may be impossible to ever definitively answer who our 37th president was. David Greenberg's compelling book tracks the many colors of this iconic chameleon. The first couple of chapters do a solid job recounting the Tricky Dicky days, kicked off by the warm (?), conniving (?), populist (?) Checkers speech-- Nixon's first great rebound. But it isn't until the Watergate and post-Watergate chapters that the book really takes off with fresh, provocative insights.
Greenberg escorts us down the twisted passageways of Nixon's psyche, recounting the many news, historical and entertainment sources that painted Nixon as an emotional cripple whose psychotic manipulations and paranoid rants wracked our nation's trust in government. Was that the real Nixon? The following section reviews the media sources, often prompted by the Nixon PR machine, that attempted to recast the by then ex-president as a great statesman who opened up China and held out an olive branch to the Soviets. Perhaps most suprising, and riveting, is the chapter that discusses the revisionist historians who paint Nixon's as the great liberal in conservative clothing-- the man who took the "Great Society" to new heights, shepherding legislation that integrated schools, bettered the lives of Native Americans, and expanded social programs for the poor.
Greenberg while refusing to swallow any of these images whole, uses his keen eye to find the credible core of each Nixonian persona. This is a memorable history that questions history itself, a book that asks-- is it possible to objectively capture any figure from history?
Rating: 1
Summary: So, what's the point?
Comment: The premise of Greenberg's book, evaluating and interpreting opinion's of Nixon, is really a pointless task. Journalists, constituents, and opponents all were attacking Nixon from a partisan perspective and did not really know him anyway. Furthermore, all Presidents and politicians since F.D.R. have created an image to represent strength, goals, or to inspire the country. It is hardly a Richard Nixon thing as Greenberg seems to suggest. If one wanted to really get to know Nixon, then they would interview or have interviewed Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, Ed Nixon, the late Bebe Rebozo,or other intimates that were true Nixon loyalists. A journalists opinion, heavily influenced by political persuasion, is not a truthful depiction of any of RN's images. Likewise, the media loved Jack Kennedy and Jackie, so does that imply that JFK was perfect? Absolutely not--what it means is that there was a media bias that helped shape the perceptions of each figure.
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Title: Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture by Thomas Doherty ISBN: 0231129521 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power by Lou Cannon ISBN: 1586480308 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt : (The American Presidents Series) by Roy Jenkins, Arthur M. Schlesinger ISBN: 0805069593 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Grand Old Party : A History of the Republicans by LEWIS GOULD ISBN: 0375507418 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America by Keith W. Olson ISBN: 0700612513 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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