· The hefty young fellow impressed Renneburg. Nixon was persuaded to say yes by him. Nixon may, at the at least, get some law clients out of it, he reasoned. He got a lot more than that, as you'll hear in this summary. You'll learn how Nixon became the youngest vice president in history. Why he lost the election to John F. Kennedy. · “John A. Farrell's Richard Nixon: The Life is an expertly written and strikingly comprehensive portrait of America's most complicated president. Farrell has a genius for the telling anecdote and apropos quote. His command of the sources is staggering. Richard Nixon is a true landmark achievement.”Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. · If [Nixon's] legacy has been inching toward rehabilitation in recent years, 'The Life' is a much-needed roadblock. With a mix of morbid fascination and deep empathy, Farrell humanizes Nixon, but Author: Jason Heller.
John Aloysius Farrell is an American author. He has written biographies of U.S. President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, and defense attorney Clarence bltadwin.ru is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post.. On January 2, , The New York Times reported that Farrell. By John A Farrell. Scribe pp £30 order from our bookshop. Richard Nixon was a bad man but an effective conservative - a conservative not in the ideological sense (cutting taxes, throwing bums off welfare) but in the sense of a statesman who tries to navigate his country through choppy waters and bring it out the other side afloat. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial biography of the president who came to embody postwar American resentment and division. Within four years of his first victory, Nixon was a U.S. senator; in six, the vice president of the United States of America.
book Catalog Search. Search the physical and online collections at UW-Madison, UW System libraries, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. In his beautifully written and deeply insightful biography, “Richard Nixon: The Life,” John A. Farrell, a former White House correspondent for the Boston Globe, offers a bracing portrait of a. Published in , John Farrell’s “Richard Nixon: The Life” is the most recent comprehensive, single-volume biography of Nixon. Farrell is a former White House correspondent for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of award-winning biographies of Massachusetts congressman Tip O’Neill and attorney Clarence Darrow.
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