Nixon agonistes : the crisis of the self-made man / Garry Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wills, Garry, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.

Nixon, Richard M.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 617 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Mariner Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary:

From 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 president for confidence. In the end, Nixon Agonistes reaches far beyond its assessment of the thirty-seventh president to become an incisive and provocative analysis of the American political machine.

Contents:

I. The Moral Market / Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 3

2. The Center Cannot Hold 34

3. The Politics of Resentment 55

4. The Denigrative Method 72

5. Checkers 91

6. The Hero 115

7. The Common Man 139

8. Whittier: First Day 150

9. Whittier: Second Day 168

II. The Economic Market / Adam Smith

1. Miami, 1968 189

2. Political Philanthropy 206

3. Republican Camelot 219

4. They, the People 229

5. The Goldwater Party 246

6. Southern Strategy 258

7. The Succeeder 276

8. The Non-Succeeders 294

9. Making It 306

III. The Intellectual Market / John Stuart Mill

1. Chicago, 1968 319

2. Liberals 335

3. Radicals 356

4. The Establishment 374

5. The War on War 388

6. Plastic Man 403

IV. The Political Market / Woodrow Wilson

1. "Self-Determination" 419

2. A Good Election 434

3. The Covenant 456

4. Universalism 471

5. Our Country! 481

V. The Future of Liberalism

1. Saving the System 499

2. Refiguring the Calculus 518

3. "Left" and "Right" in America 539

4. "Beyond Left and Right" 558

5. Nixon Triumphans: The Self-Made Man 576

6. Nixon Agonistes: The Last Liberal? 589.

Notes:

"A Mariner book."

Originally published: 1970. With new introd.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0618134328

OCLC:

51478001

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