In the Arena (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Nixon
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1913-1990
- Setting: The United States and the world
- Principal Characters: Richard Nixon, Patricia Nixon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Suffering, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, Politics, Exile or expatriates, Television or television broadcasting, China or Chinese people, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Technology, Watergate Affair, Statesmen
- Locales: United States, Earth
Within The Arena: A Memoir of Victory Defeat and Renewal, Richard Nixon has produced a hybrid work, part autobiography, part political commentary. The book possesses little literary merit. Its structure shapeless, and its prose colorless, In the Arena is an ambiguous monument to the effect of tape recorders on modern literature. Nixon’s book lacks even the dubious merit of imparting state secrets or intimate anecdotes of the sort excerpted by the news magazines and Sunday supplements. Despite this, however, In the Arena is a valuable work, for it may be the last...
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