034;The Washington Times" [Nixon s] oddity, more than any policy choices or impeachable crimes, is the subject of this book, which is marked by unexpected and startling empathy.
Thomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable. "The New York Times Book Review" "" Terrifically engaging. a fair, insightful and highly entertaining portrait of the thirty-seventh president. "Being Nixon" should be read by anyone with a more open mind about the oddest man ever to occupy the Oval Office. Max Boot, "The Wall Street Journal" "" Ambitious. Thomas s book is filled with anecdotes that humanize Nixon. There are pages suggesting real insight and, especially, how the president was seen by those around him. There are well-crafted word-pictures of Nixon throughout the narrative, from his legendary awkwardness to his catastrophic frustration and vindictive rage. Carl Bernstein, "The Washington Post" From Nixon s hardscrabble California childhood to his post-presidential exile, Thomas proves an amiable and fair-minded tour guide. The result, in Thomas s rendering, is a man of intertwined threads, in some ways the personification of the contending passions of American life of the period. "The Boston Globe" A well-written and balanced account. gracefully written and highly readable. [Thomas s] interest goes to the man himself, like most of us a man of contradictions, a man with a dark and light side, with the dark side often leading to disastrous decisions, encouraged by his increasingly tight circle of self-serving advisers. "The Washington Times" [Nixon s] oddity, more than any policy choices or impeachable crimes, is the subject of this book, which is marked by unexpected and startling empathy.