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Title: RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon ISBN: 0-671-70741-8 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting, informative, believable
Comment: Having read this book, I can finally say that I am historically informed as to the time in question. I myself was born long after the events told here. A major portion of the book's interest is based upon hearing an exhaustive detailed report on the day to day functions of the Presidency. The fact that Nixon actually wrote his book, unlike Kennedy, whose Pulitzer Prize winner was ghost-written, makes it all the more enjoyable. Nixon's side of the story is finally told in a skillful manner that cannot be interrupted by the harrangue of some foolishly inept liberal intent on forcing their own opinion of a complicated era. Finally, Nixon's mistakes do not qualify him as the greatest criminal of the twentieth century, as one reviewer so eloquently wrote. If Nixon did in fact have knowledge of the Watergate break-in, (and it is hard to believe he did not) then he is still no worse than Truman, LBJ, or even the greatly beloved John F. Kennedy. It is a singular characteristic of liberal thinking to declare that a "third rate burglary," is worthy above mass murder etc, for the title of worst crime and the person by whom the burglary was ostensibly commited the worst criminal. Nixon's greatest asset to the common man was that he did not shrink from the political arena that was from the beginning tilted against him. The elitist minority of this country remains, sadly, under the delusion that the disappearance of Nixon from the national scene put to death the existence of the great silent majority. America still more closely resembles the rough edges and imperfection of Nixon that it does to the unrealistic and contrived memory of Kennedy as a lust and corruption tainted savior.
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: 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.
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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 (T) Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger ISBN: 0316496618 Publisher: Little Brown & Co Pub. Date: 01 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford by Gerald R. Ford ISBN: 0060112972 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $3.98 |
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Title: YEARS OF RENEWAL by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 0684855720 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 22 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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