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The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power.(SHELF LIFE)
* In The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power (Basic, 312 pp., $26), veteran Time magazine writer Lance Morrow shows us three future presidents facing early political tests. All three were outsize figures: "John Kennedy would be Apollo. Richard Nixon would be Vulcan, god of the American underearth. And between Kennedy's Camelot and Nixon's Shadowland, there would fall the interval of the False Claimant."
The story Morrow tells is interesting in itself, but his style and generosity of spirit make this book all the more moving. He quotes a line from Thoreau, "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and I am still on their trail"--and finds an echo of it in the sadness of Nixon, whose story, "beneath the drama of the struggle for power and the hurt and viciousness ...
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- Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography.
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Zwicker, Charles H. March 22, 1998 700+ words
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- Richard Nixon, R I P. (tribute to the late U.S. president) (Editorial)
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. May 16, 1994 700+ words
...But with what achievement will Richard Nixon be associated, a generation from...could be persuaded to be civil to Richard Nixon. Ten years later, after he addressed...in the world acknowledged that Richard Nixon's prestige did not derive exclusively...
- Richard Nixon and American religion. (former president Richard M. Nixon)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century May 11, 1994 700+ words
...pastor to presidents and a friend of Richard Nixon since 1950, says he is confident...his memoirs, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, that President Eisenhower told...not feel comfortable doing so." Nixon also included in his 1978 book...
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- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Kilgore, Ed May 1, 2008 700+ words
...analyzed American politicians, Richard Nixon, and come up with a flesh and...DealGreat Society coalition. Richard Nixon, says Perlstein, was the perfect...proletarian clientele. Paradoxically, Richard Nixon appealed to the anger of middle...
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