Richard Nixon:
the life
Overview
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Sunday Independent Book of the Year
A deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America’s most complex president.
Award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures, from Nixon’s early days in the Navy to his political career as senator, vice president, and finally president, and his downfall in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon is a magisterial portrait of the man who embodied post-war American political cynicism — and was destroyed by it.
Details
- Format
- Size
- Extent
- ISBN
- RRP
- Pub date
- Other rights
- Paperback
- 198mm x 129mm
- 752 pages
- 9781911617525
- GBP£18.99
- 9 August 2018
- NA Doubleday
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Awards
- Winner of the 2018 New-York Historical Society's Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2018 The Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
Praise
‘Prodigiously sourced and insightful … [an] important and revealing biography.’
‘[A] wonderful biography of America’s most controversial 20th-century president … a sharply observed but refreshingly uncensorious assessment.’
About the Author
John A. Farrell is the author of Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of the Year. As a longtime journalist at The Boston Globe, he worked as White House correspondent, Washington editor, and investigative reporter on the vaunted Spotlight team. His award-winning portrait of Nixon was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography, and earned him the title of American Historian Laureate from the New York Historical Society.
