NIXON

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - A Man Made in the Arena
2. Chapter Two - The Red Hunter
3. Chapter Three - The Checkers Speech
4. Chapter Four - Ike’s #2
5. Chapter Five - 1960: The Loss That Burned Forever
6. Chapter Six - The Wilderness
7. Chapter Seven - The Madman Returns
8. Chapter Eight - The Game Abroad
9. Chapter Nine - The Dollar Dies
10. Chapter Ten - The White House Tapes
11. Chapter Eleven - Watergate
12. Chapter Twelve - The Resignation
13. Chapter Thirteen - The Ghost in the Room

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE A Man Made in the Arena RICHARD NIXON CAME from Whittier, California, which sounds like a place you'd name if you were trying to make “dusty and forgettable” sound dignified. His father ran a grocery store that barely made money. His mother was a devout Quaker who believed in discipline, silence, and the spiritual benefits of not enjoying anything. Nixon didn’t come from wealth. He came from work. He wasn’t charismatic. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not ever. He didn’t have the kind of presence that drew people in. He had the kind that made people double-check the lock on their filing cabinets. But he was observant. Watchful. Sharp in the way that made people nervous. He...