Nixon
A Life
By Jonathan Aitken
(Regnery, 1994)
Jonathan Aitken portrays former U.S. President Richard Nixon as a master geopolitical strategist who shifted the global balance of power toward the West by engaging with China and achieving “peace with honor” in Vietnam.
In light of Nixon’s most recent trips to Russia as an unofficial sounding board for the U.S. government and his extensive writing in the foreign policy area, this work gives its readers a better understanding of the man who has been caricatured more than evaluated since Watergate brought down his political career. It is not the official biography, but it could well be for the remarkable task that Aitken, a member of the British Parliament, has performed in combing oral histories and conducting interviews with Nixon intimates and the former president himself. (from Library Journal)
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