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Samanta Marko, a sandstorm of troubles and fun

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Eddie and Patrick Connor, Two dumb lizards who are also big softies.

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Maximus Jefferson, The smart bird that can be also a dummy

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Wild Kravinoff, the lion warrior that cares

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Thomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable.

Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomas reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve detente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its silent majority of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft. A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, "Being Nixon" offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness a balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature. Praise for" Being Nixon" Here in one sharp and briskly written volume is what you really want to know about the great and horrible thirty-seventh President: How could someone so wise about the world be so utterly clueless about himself? "Time" [A] fully rounded portrait. 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. 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.