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Title: The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952 by Irwin F. Gellman ISBN: 0-684-85064-8 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Epitome of historical research
Comment: The Contender is by far the most objective, well-researched, and best historical work on Richard Nixon. Instead of focusing on the slurs and character assasinations that make up most of the present works on Nixon, Dr. Irwin Gellman has restored some integrity to the discipline of history by producing history based on facts (what a concept, hey?). Instead of writing a politically motivated book, Dr. Gellman's goal was to produce a history of Nixon's early campaigns. The chapters on Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gahagan Douglas are extremely sensible and its surprising that it has taken academia this long to figure out the truth about the two campaigns. Instead of the "sinister" Tricky Dick using smoke and mirrors to win seats in Congress and the senate, we have a hardworking, sometimes naive, idealistic, and dedicated young man who wants to make a diference by entering politics. After reading The Contender, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that Voorhis and Douglas lost because they were out of touch with their constituents, their own party abandoned them, and Nixon was a part of a new political movement that wanted to discontinue the excesses of the new deal but keep its practical programs. The left-wing myths created to discredit and smear Nixon will never hold weight again.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Remarkable Assessment of Nixon's Other Side
Comment: Richard Nixon, to most, is America's most controversial president of the last century. An intelligent and competent person (Nixon was awarded a scholarship to Harvard University), and an adept politician, he was also the first American president to resign (announced on 8 August, 1974), the result of his 'Watergate' connection.
Nixon was not a public's darling. His Watergate involvement, his resignation, the "Tricky Dick" image is what most Americans (and the world) remember about the former president. This unfortunate reality is due to the fact that many authors only dare to write about the negative side of the person. But not Irwin Gellman.
THE CONTENDER is a passionate, remarkably intelligent and unmatched account of Richard Nixon's other side- the "other Nixon" every student of politics, whether of the Left, Centre or Right, should understand and appreciate.
Gellman's book is intelligent, impressively researched, and written in a readable manner. The portrayal of the subject is stimulating, balanced and sensible, a portrayal that will surely provoke many readers.
Rating: 3
Summary: Prepare to be challenged
Comment: When you read this book, you should be prepare to be challenged on what you have heard about Nixon before. This book undoes--or purports to--all of the early Nixon myths. It appears to be exhaustingly researched, and Nixon haters can take comfort in the notion that Nixon became the Nixon they hated after the 1960 Presidential Election.
Still, Gellman does sugarcoat some things Nixon does, and appears to draw some charitable conclusions without any backup. It is an interesting read, and a portrayal of what by any accounts is a remarkable journey from unknown to Vice President.
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Title: Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962` by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 067152836X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.98 |
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Title: RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon ISBN: 0671707418 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics by Monica Crowley ISBN: 0375751351 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss ISBN: 0140112405 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Watergate by Fred Emery ISBN: 0684813238 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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