Richard Nixon

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Sunday Independent Book of the YearA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America-s most complex president. Award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America-s most controversial political figures, from Nixon-s early days in the Navy to his political career as senator, vice president, and finally president, and his downfall in 1974 following the Watergate scandal. Richard Nixon is a magisterial portrait of the man who embodied post-war American political cynicism - and was destroyed by it.