One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Tim Weiner ID: B00ZIZWOL0
A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner Based largely on documents declassified in only the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and Congress but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon’s demise were inextricably linked. From the hail of garbage and curses that awaited Nixon upon his arrival at the White House, when he became the president of a nation as deeply divided as it had been since the end of the Civil War, to the unprecedented action Nixon took against American citizens, whom he considered as traitorous as the army of North Vietnam, to the infamous break-in and the tapes that bear remarkable record of the most intimate and damning conversations between the president and his confidantes, Weiner narrates the history of Nixon’s anguished presidency in fascinating and fresh detail. A crucial new look at the greatest political suicide in history, One Man Against the World leaves us with new insight not only into this tumultuous period but also into the motivations and demons of an American president who saw enemies everywhere and, thinking the world was against him, undermined the foundations of the country he had hoped to lead.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 13 hoursProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Macmillan AudioAudible.com Release Date: June 16, 2015Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00ZIZWOL0 Best Sellers Rank: #207 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical & Political Figures #269 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > History > United States & Canada #287 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States > US Presidents
Today, twenty-one years after his death, Richard Nixon is still a polarizing figure. People either think he was a great man undone by inept subordinates that he was too loyal to, or they think that he was the most evil Machiavellian political figure of the 20th century. Right from the beginning of One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, author Tim Weiner makes no secret of which camp he falls in. Weiner defends his strong contempt for the 37th President of the United States, making the argument that Nixon tried to place himself above the law, much like a king, rather than the leader of a nation of laws. He goes farther however in suggesting that Nixon not only saw himself as above the law, but that he was also a drunk, paranoid and (despite Nixon’s vocal denial of this) a crook.
The problem for those seeking to defend Nixon from these assertions is that, as Weiner points out, many of these claims are supported by statements that come from Nixon’s own mouth. Weiner quotes from the recently released Nixon tapes to show that his subject was often petty, vindictive and branded every critic as his mortal enemy. He also relies heavily on an oral history of the State Department, as well as memoirs from some of the contemporary players, and here he is perhaps more slanted in his selection of sources unfriendly to Nixon.
There are some new revelations in the book, or if not new, then at least subjects not often discussed about Nixon. For example, Weiner relies on quotations from recordings to show that Nixon and his staff were aware that the FBI’s Mark Felt was the person passing leaked information to the Washington Post (Woodward and Bernstein’s "Deep Throat").
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