Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man John Cleary at once visionary mystic and

at once visionary mystic and rationalist

the fantastical and the realistic

ISBN10: 0368887081

ISBN13: 9780244672461

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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man John Cleary at once visionary mystic andFrom one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader and a struggling nation mired in a foolish Asian war, forfeiting the loyalty of its youth, puzzled by its own power, and looking to its cautious