Richard Nixon (eBook)

Speeches, Writings, Documents

Richard Nixon (Autor)

Rick Perlstein (Herausgeber)

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2010
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3568-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Rick Perlstein is the author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner) and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (Hill & Wang), which won the Los Angeles Times book prize. He has written for many publications, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life. This volume gathers everything from schoolboy letters to geostrategic manifestos and Oval Office transcripts to create a fascinating portrait of Nixon, one that is enriched by an extensive introduction in which Rick Perlstein puts forward a major reinterpretation of the thirty-seventh president's rise and fall. This anthology includes some of the most famous addresses in American history, from Nixon's "e;Checkers"e; speech (1952) and "e;Last Press Conference"e; (1962), to the "e;Silent Majority"e; speech (1969) and White House farewell. These texts are joined by campaign documents--including the infamous "e;Pink Sheet"e; from the 1950 Senate race--that give stark evidence of Nixon's slashing political style. Made easily available here for the first time, these writings give new depth to our understanding of Nixon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: The James Madison Library in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: The James Madison Library in American Politics
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alger Hiss • Barry Goldwater • Bob Woodward • Bretton Woods Conference • Checkers speech • Christopher Hitchens • Cold War • communism • communist revolution • containment • Controversial Discussions • Daniel Ellsberg • Decolonization • demagogue • distrust • Dixiecrat • Donald Hiss • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Elliot Richardson • Espionage • Espionage Agent • Executive Privilege • foreign policy • freedom of speech • George McGovern • George W. Bush • God Bless America • grand jury • Great Power • Great Society • Greg Mitchell • Harry S. Truman • Hatchet man (politics) • Henry Kissinger • Hippie • Ho Chi Minh • House Un-American Activities Committee • H. R. Haldeman • Impeachment • Imperial Ambitions • isolationism • joe mcginniss • John Ehrlichman • John F. Kennedy • John Sirica • Jonathan Schell • Joseph Alsop • kitchen debate • liberal elite • Lyndon B. Johnson • Mark Felt • Miller Center of Public Affairs • Mr. • Murray Chotiner • national security • Nikita Khrushchev • north vietnam • Nuclear Arms Race • obscenity • One-China policy • Our Choice • pat nixon • peace dividend • Peaceful coexistence • Peace with Honor • perjury • power politics • Prosecutor • Red Scare • Red Star Over China • Republican faction (Spanish Civil War) • Richard Nixon • Rick Perlstein • Sherman Adams • silent majority • Six Crises • South Vietnam • Soviet Union • Stanley Kutler • Superiority (short story) • That Justice Be Done • The Conscience of a Conservative • The Trial of Henry Kissinger • Totalitarianism • un-american • United States Department of State • Veto • Viet Cong • vietnamization • war • warfare • Watergate scandal • What Happened • White-Collar Crime • White House horrors • White House Plumbers • Whittaker Chambers • Woodrow Wilson • World War II • Worse than Watergate
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3568-2 / 1400835682
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3568-3 / 9781400835683