Richard Nixon : A political and personal portrait
Earl Mazo (Author)
"On Election Day, 1954, after a particularly bitter off-year campaign, Richard Nixon told his advisor, Murray Chotiner, 'I'm through with politics.' Earlier, Nixon had agreed with his wife to retire from national affairs at the end of his term in 1956... Starting with Nixon's birth in 1913, Earl Mazo has assembled a fascinating, intimate account, based on over three hundred interviews with Nixon's friends and enemies, on material in the Vice-President's files, and on more than two dozen candid interviews with Nixon himself. This is a remarkable book in many ways: it presents an inside view of the administration... and of Nixon's relations with Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Dulles, Christian Herter, John Kennedy, Senator McCarthy, Nelson Rockefeller, and many others; it shows his differences with the President; it is an account of a unique political voyage; it indicates how Nixon would behave in the executive chair; it shows unrevealed aspects of Nixon's personality. Anyone concerned with American politics to 1960--and beyond--will find this indispensable and absorbing reading."--from the inside front and back flap
Print Book, English, 1959
First edition
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1959