Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Sunday Independent Book of the YearA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America's most complex president. Award-winning biographer John A. Farrell
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. Dispensing wi
The Nixon Effect: How His Presidency Has Changed American Politics examines the 37th president’s political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of
A nuanced study of the partnership between the 37th President and his wife argues that the couple endured political and intimate disappointments throughout their 53-year marriage but ultimately shared
"This book, based on research on and transcripts of the Nixon, Johnson, and Kennedy White House presidential recordings as well as other contemporary sources, reveals for the first time the origins of
Written by a leading presidential biographer who “narrates with grace and style” (Kirkus Reviews) this is a probing, insightful, and nuanced study of the partnership between Pat and Dick Nixon through
A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generationAmerican democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation
In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward coll
"Passionate, iconoclastic, and wrly humorous . . . [Zinn] sometimes proves astounding in his almost clairvoyant analysis."?Publisher's Weekly Starred ReviewHoward Zinn's life and work are the stuff of
While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established?most recently by PBS in 2003?what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still