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Title: Beyond Peace by Richard M. Nixon ISBN: 0-679-43323-6 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 10 May, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Book for America's silent majority
Comment: Nixon, despite his personal demons, was perhaps the most intellgent president in the last 50 years; his iron grasp of foreign and domestic policy is a breath of fresh air in our polerized nation. Unlike many of today's politicans, Nixon understood that only a America that is strong at home and abroad can be an effective America.
Nixon is an effective writer that defines the issues, presents the opposing side and then crushes them with his. The book opens with his views on foregin policy: build an alliance with the Russians, keep trading with China and allow its outdated communist government to collaspe, open relations with Cuba, isolate Iran and other rouge nations and help the thrid world.
Nixon voices that the US, not the UN, should lead the world in progress and should never look for a permision slip (as thepresident said in the State of the Union). The End of the cold war brought a unquie chance to remake the world beyond peace; history will show that this was wasted with short sighted socialict policies and a hands off approach to world affairs that lead to our war on terror today.
He then explains that America needs less but more effective goverment. Today, we are heading down the road to a more socialist America- there are calls for a national health care system, demands for the goverment to throw more money at pusedo communist programs. Ironically, he says, it seems that Russia and the thrid world are becoming more pro west than we are.
Nixon was a no nonsense leader and knew what was and is best for America. It is sad though, that our nation almost as divided today as when he was president. A house divided shall not stand though, and America needs today a strong stand in the name of freedom. I've got a feeling that Bush read this and Nixon's other great work, no more Vietnams.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Enlightening View of the World
Comment: Though Richard Nixon was a lifelong Republican, warts and all, he remains an intelligent, knowledgeable, important figure in the fields of international affairs and foreign policy. When he speaks about China, the world listens. When he speaks about Russia or the Soviet Union, the world listens. The world community, on the whole, is less attuned to correlating the man with the supposed image brought about by the Watergate scandal than most Americans. Consequently, they have lived out the Watergate fantasy most Americans would like to permanently attach to and besmirch Nixon's legacy. History has shown, as much as this book stands as a testament, that Richard Nixon was larger than Watergate and was responsible, either in part with Henry Kissinger and a cabinet of able-minded personalities or in whole, for a great many political and global accomplishments.
Nixon's main charge here is that the domestic affairs of America may do more to sink its dominance as the leader of the free world than it will to propel it into the leadership in the coming twenty-first century. America's true challenge as a global dominating force and as a people will not be during wartime but, rather, during a time of peace when we have no one to fight but ourselves. His charge remains poignantly clear in 2004: If we have no foreign enemy to fight, we look toward each other with that same malice.
Nixon's insightful analysis as a former president and perhaps the greatest foreign policy president of the 20th century make his work here absolutely qualified and essential to any reader with an interest in political science or governmental affairs.
Rating: 3
Summary: Give me a token part.
Comment: I have studied Nixon far more than he will ever study me, but we may both have a Lon Fuller problem, if either of of ever tries to play the part of a scholar. On page 12 of BEYOND PEACE, I find:
In his book THE MORALITY OF LAW, Lon Fuller drew an eloquent distinction between the morality of duty and the morality of aspiration, a distinction that applies to nations as well as to individuals. In times of war, a premium is placed on the morality of duty, the absolute necessity of doing what is required, of doing right in the limited sense of not doing what is wrong. (p. 12).
Most people function pretty well without having a war on their minds, but for people like Nixon, it seems to be the main move capable of convincing the world that his country is doing anything. This book was written after Russia had ceased to be an enemy in a real sense, but he still treats it as a major example of what politics is all about.
It is also important that we never put our chips on just one man, even one as powerful and able as Yeltsin. Our concern should be not the man but rather what he stands for. We stuck too long with Gorbachev. As long as Yeltsin has a foreign policy that serves the interests of peace and a domestic policy that serves the intersts of the Russian people, he deserves our support. (p. 47).
Nixon helped make Henry Kissinger great by entering into diplomacy with America's enemies, recognizing that if certain enemies could maintain a policy which serves the interest of peace, Nixon was willing to deal with those enemies openly, regardless of how many millions of their own people some leaders like Mao might be responsible for killing. I didn't find anything in this book which describes any American president's acts of war as bad, but the policy of American presidents since Nixon has deteriorated to the point that any nation's embassy might be struck by an American bomb, as the French embassy in Libya was struck during reprisals for something while Ronald Reagan was president, without causing a great clash of civilizations. Generalities such as this book contains don't capture the context which allows ideas to become authentic when they become a basis for a real action.
If people who hate America read this book, they are sure to see that America doesn't recognize other nations as sovereign powers, but only allows them to have leaders who serve American interests. If George W. Bush's words in response to the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, are used to promote the utter devastation of every nation that is harboring some killers, we are in danger of having a philosophy that has all the problems associated with the riddle responsible for the death of Homer. For what the great philospher of war thought about that, see THE ART AND THOUGHT OF HERACLITUS, An edition of the fragments with translation and commentary by Charles H. Kahn, Page 39 and pages 111-2.
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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: Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World by Richard Milhous Nixon ISBN: 0671743430 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Leaders by Richard Milhous Nixon ISBN: 0446512494 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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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: Real War by Richard Nixon ISBN: 0283986506 Publisher: Sidgwich Jackson Ltd |
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