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Title: RN : The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Milhous Nixon ISBN: 0-448-14374-7 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pub. Date: May, 1978 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nixon's Take On History
Comment: My girlfriend asked me what the heck I was doing reading Nixon's memoirs. I said, "because it's always good to know what the bad guy's are up to." I'm certainly no Nixon fan. I wasn't before I read this book and I'm not now that I've read it. But, like any presidential memoir (LBJ's The Vantage Point is another example), they have to be read not as an impartial historical text but as a political document in which the ex-president attempts to establish his own legacy before his critics have the chance. Nixon's is no different. It's well-written, fairly candid, and, for anyone interested in the amazingly tumultuous times he lived in, very interesting to read his take on his life. Just always remember, though, that this is how HE wanted us to see his life.
Rating: 3
Summary: Richard Nixon-Excuses and Accusers
Comment: Richard Nixon choose to write this book only four years after he resigned. His dry methodical style reveals unintententially the inhibited emotional person he was.In terms of an historical record he makes a strong case that hiss was a communist spy. He reveals the Eisenhower role in neutralizing McCarthy. He discusses his friendship with the kennedy family but his obsession with them comes through with mentioning Ted kennedy and Chappaquidick . He admits to using the CIA to prent the FBI investigation and the hush money to Hunt that left this reader with wondering why Nixon didn't think he was guilty of impeachable offenses.He dismisses his opponents Vorhiss,Douglas and McGovern as running dirty campaigns but doesn't apologize for some of his campaign tactics.It is an important refernce but the reader wished he could have provided a rationale for the Watergate bugging.He doesn't deal with aftermath of the Vietnam War at all. He is proud of the prisoners of war he released and strangely never visited the memorial in washington.It is an important reference for any student on the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal and one gets am insight on the paranoid thinking of the man-the reader eventually thinks everyone is out to get him! The writing style could have been improved but the book would not be Nixon talking.One should not let this book the only book one reads on Nixon,Watergate or the Vietnam war.
Rating: 5
Summary: Other than Nixon, no man knows his history...
Comment: Despite all the garbage that is proliferated about Nixon today, anyone who reads RN's work will see the true Richard Nixon. Although you may detest his politics, you will understand his perspective and why he was motivated to living in the "fishbowl," was an ardent anti-communist, why he bombed Cambodia, and why he disliked the media. Although the reader may disagree with RN, he or she will understand his idealist goals of ending and inaugurating a new era of peace. Unfortunately, watergate happened and the U.S. would not recover until the Reagan administration. A must read for any person interested in Nixon and the work is far more resourceful than any of RN's biographers.
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Title: Six Crises by Richard Milhous Nixon ISBN: 0385001258 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal by Richard Nixon ISBN: 0671723189 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Beyond Peace by Richard M. Nixon ISBN: 0679433236 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 10 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Abuse of Power : The New Nixon Tapes by Stanley Kutler ISBN: 0684851873 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 22 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger ISBN: 0316496618 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: October, 1979 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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