Walter Isaacson, author of"Steve Jobs" "" An infamous, polarizing, and enigmatic political figure President Richard Nixon comes to life in a surprising and engaging look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness.
One feels for Nixon. "The New Yorker" [A] glossy, armchair-ready biography. [a] book in tune with our time. It s a trick of fate that Nixon, a sitting president who experienced a version of supersize public shaming, might have appreciated for its futuristic appeal. Instead of being passively read, "Being Nixon" invites argument. "The New York Times" What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait of an anxious introvert who struggled to be a transformative statesman. Walter Isaacson, author of"Steve Jobs" "" An infamous, polarizing, and enigmatic political figure President Richard Nixon comes to life in a surprising and engaging look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness. "Publishers Weekly" As Thomas s biographical and sometimes psychobiographical study builds, it becomes ever more unlikely that Nixon, a loner in the constituency-pleasing game of politics, could ever have succeeded. This is one of the better books on Nixon in the recent crop. "Kirkus Reviews" The great Evan Thomas has brought us a measured, concise, and important American biography. Now that the shouting and tumult have faded and Richard Nixon moves from our contemporary politics toward history, Thomas offers wise insights, based on many new sources, achieving what might have seemed impossible: He has rendered a new Nixon who, in vital and unexpected ways, is very different from the character about whom, for the past seventy years, so much has been said and written.
