Richard M Nixon or When I Was a Kid This Was a Free Country

Richard M. Nixon: An American Enigma

Author: Herbert S Parmet

Noted biographer and historian Herbert Parmet introduces readers to this enigmatic leader, whose forward-thinking policies and strategies still affect the international stage.

 

Both motivated and crippled by his appetite for power, President Richard M. Nixon will always be remembered for tarnishing the American Presidency.  However, this new biography shows how Nixon’s groundbreaking initiatives on the environment, technology, foreign relations and social policy rank Nixon among the most accomplished leaders ever to sit in the White House.

Table of Contents:

Editor's Preface     ix
Author's Preface     xi
A Quaker from Whittier     1
From Whittier to Washington     13
You're My Boy     31
Vice President     45
Defeat     61
Resurrection     75
A Governing Center     91
Nixon and the World     115
Alone in the Lincoln Sitting Room     139
A "Third-Rate" Burglary     163
Death of a Presidency     185
Study and Discussion Questions     206
A Note on the Sources     210
Index     217

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When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country

Author: G Gordon Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy reminds us what we loved about America, back when you could shoot off a firecracker, light up a cigar, or drive fast, and there wasn't a government bureaucrat telling you how to live your life. Liddy sounds an alarm for all freedom-loving Americans, warning that our liberties are being chipped away in the name of good causes, civic convenience and left-wing demagoguery "that there ought to be a law." Liddy also divulges new information in a shocking, tell-all chapter on Watergate-including court documents and crime-scene evidence that shreds Woodward and Bernstein's popular theory to bits.

Publishers Weekly

In this colorful right-wing screed, the Watergate felon and conservative radio talk show host bemoans the politically correct gulag that is the United States. Liddy pillories the usual suspects-environmentalists, "killer air bags," gun-control advocates, women who think they can do anything a man can-and gnaws on old enmities in a tedious appendix full of Watergate ephemera (something about "the notorious rat John Dean," plus clippings of a call-girl ring, etc.). Liddy's hyper-masculine prose celebrates weapons, the massive, gas-guzzling "torque" of his automobiles, and Julius Caesar, a "great leader" who wisely "slaughtered all the males remaining alive" among his foes and "sold all the women and children into slavery." In his Nietzschean worldview, life is a ceaseless struggle for power among men and nations, channeled and structured by the sado-masochistic bonding rituals of warriors. But as his title implies, Liddy's most poignant writing dwells on the vanished liberties of youth: going hunting with a pal, making his own fireworks, burning leaves on an autumn afternoon (now, sadly, banned by "global warming"-a term he always uses with quotes-alarmists). His is essentially a boy's view of freedom as the absence of responsibility and constraint. His many fans, of course, will love it. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.