Forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon's historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew's "Washington Journal," featuring a brilliant new afterword
Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew's "Washington Journal" is a[...]
Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew'sWashington Journal is a landmark work of political journalism. Keenly observed and hugely insightful, Washington Journal opens in 1973 and follows the deterioration of Richard Nixon's presidency in real time. With her unpre[...]
In recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority, Robert Mason analyzes Nixon's resp[...]
For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of [...]
Six diary notebooks kept by Samuel Beckett during his 1936-7 trip through Nazi Germany were discovered in 1989. Samuel Beckett's German Diaries 1936-1937 is the first study to explore the relevance of these diaries to Beckett's development as a writer. Using the diaries as the central point of focus[...]
With over 1000 essential questions, MCQs and EMQs in Surgery is the ideal self-assessment companion guide to Bailey & Love's Short Practice in Surgery, 26th edition. The book assists trainee surgeons as they prepare for examinations and enables them to test their knowledge of the principles and prac[...]
In Tricky Dick, New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone gives the inside scoop on Richard Nixon's political career. He charts Nixon's rise from election to Congress on to his devastating losses in the White House run in 1960 and the California governor campaign in 1962, to the greatest comebac[...]
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now se[...]
Catch this new, updated and redesigned edition of this lost horror classic, which Booklist calls "Good, creepy stuff " and ComicMix says has "Mignola's trademark spirit mediums, ghastly tentacles, and general all-around weirdness."Finally collected in one volume From the mind of Mike Mignola, creat[...]
It all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a "salesman against socialization." But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to do to keep his place on Dwight Eisenhower's Republican ticket, so he took to the airwaves. The "Checke[...]
An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal messand now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, fo[...]
The rise, fall, and rebirth of Richard Nixon is perhaps the most fascinating story in American politics--and perhaps the most misunderstood. Nixon: A Life is the first entirely objective biography of Richard Nixon. Former British Defense Minister Jonathan Aitken conducted over sixty hours of intervi[...]
A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner
Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, "One Man Against the World "paints a devastating portrait of a tor[...]
Learn the inside scoop on Watergate, the Ford Pardon, and the 18 1/2 minute Gap. Roger Stone, The New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Killed Kennedy--the Case Against LBJ, gives the inside scoop on Nixon's rise and fall in Watergate in his new book Nixon's Secrets. Stone charts Nixon's[...]