Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #452074 in Books
• Published on: 1988-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

Customer Reviews

The Set-up of Nixon the man, the politiican, the president.
This first part of Ambrose's trilogy deals with Nixon's early years and his rise to congressman, senator, vice-president and 1960 Republican presidential candidate.

It lucidly conveys the childhood years of poverty in California including the vividly written death of Nixon's elder brother. From these early years to his time at Whittier University we can see some of the signs and syptoms of Nixon's complex personality and flaws that were to manifest themselves so dramatically in his later years.

I liked the way the author showed an empathy with Nixon whilst at the same time highlighting the man's many faults and his deeply troubled nature.

We admire this Nixon for overcoming his shyness, awkwardness, neuroses and hardships to achieve what he did but we are also troubled that such a man came to be the most powerful man in the world and Ambrose conveys these conflicts within us and Nixon superbly.