Nixon, Volume II (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1962-1972
- Setting: The United States, primarily Washington, D.C., and New York
- Principal Characters: Richard M. Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry A. Kissinger, John Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, George Mcgovern
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Vietnam War, Conservatism, Presidents, Watergate Affair, Geopolitics, Political conventions, Republican Party, Impeachments
- Locales: United States, New York, Washington, D.C.
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 covers the ten-year period from Richard Nixon’s press conference following his defeat in the California gubernatorial race by Edmund “Pat” Brown (November 7, 1962) to his landslide reelection victory over South Dakota Senator George McGovern (November 7, 1972). In documenting what some have called the most remarkable political comeback in modern American history (Nixon himself liked to compare it with Winston Churchill’s), Stephen Ambrose continues the project he began with Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-...
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