The Strange Case Of Richard Milhous Nixon

The author of this book, perhaps more intimately than anyone, knows Richard M. Nixon, the political animal. He faced him in the arena of politics on Mr. Nixon's maiden appearance in 1946--and lost. Tracing the story from that date up through the Checkers speech, the Nixon loss in the California gubernatorial race ("You don't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more") to the contradictory social and economic "Game Plans" to the astonishing Red China turnaround and the "Law and Order" posture-to Watergate and beyond-here is the first book that gets at the basic human riddle of Richard M. Nixon -- Back cover