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Title: Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man by Garry Wills ISBN: 0-618-13432-8 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Forgotten masterpiece
Comment: It's too bad that this book is out of print. Probably it stopped selling because of its title -- people must have assumed that it was only relevant for the Nixon era. Not so! The book is valuable today for the evocation of the early part of that time (especially the summer of 1968), but more than that, it is a masterful analysis of that collection of shared intellectual assumptions that make up a great deal of American political (and other) impulses -- specifically, that set of post-Lockean interpretations of social, moral, economic and political life which fall under the rubric of "liberalism". Wills details the connection between Nixon and this background, and the results are far-ranging. Many of the great American assumptions about life are implicated and their mythical foundations revealed: equality of economic opportunity, electoral "mandates", democracy via fair elections in countries that do not have them, fair competition of ideas in academia, and others. Wills leaves no stone unturned. The book deserves to be reprinted again.
Original review above was July 1998; Below added Jan 2003:
Hurrah! It's back in print! Get your copy before it disappears again!
I should have mentioned that, in addition to the fun of watching Wills dismantle the superstructure of liberalism, the book provides great pleasure through its style. Wills writes non-fiction better than most poets write sonnets.
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Title: Reagan's America by Garry Wills ISBN: 0140296077 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills ISBN: 0618134433 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The End of the Cold War : Its Meaning and Implications by Michael J. Hogan ISBN: 0521437318 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Indepedence by Garry Wills ISBN: 0618257764 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Under God : Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills ISBN: 0671747460 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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