From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns ...(展开全部)

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns ...(展开全部)

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations that started with the Communist takeover in 1949. It was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy, which changed the international balance of power for ever. With China onside Nixon might get out of Vietnam; US knowhow could ...(展开全部)

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations and changed the international balance of power for ever. This turning point in history was enacted by extraordinary players: Nixon himself, red-baiter, shrewd statesman and dis...(展开全部)

理查德·里夫斯（Richard Reeves），知名传记作家，美国南加州大学安嫩伯格传播学院教授，某报业联盟的专栏作家。他写过十多本书，大多是关于美国政治人物的传记，包括《肯尼迪：权力日记》、《尼克松：孤独的白宫主人》、《里根：想象的胜利》等。他凭借《肯尼迪：权力日记》在1993 年获得《时代周刊》年度非虚构类最佳图书奖、《华盛顿月刊》年度图书奖。1998 年，他因为在理解美国政治方面所做出的杰出贡献而获得由美国政治学协会颁发的“凯里· 麦克威廉斯奖”，同年获得美国国家报刊专栏作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。他的电视电影曾经荣获艾美奖、杜邦—哥伦比亚奖和皮迪博奖等奖项。

Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president at all. Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes, Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a surprising portrait of a brilliant and contradictory man. Even as he dreamed of presidential greatness, Nixo...(展开全部)