num_pages: 768
description: From acclaimed biographer Stephen E. Ambrose comes the life of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon. From his difficult boyhood and earnest youth to bis ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60 and '62, Nixon emerges life-size in all his complexity. Ambrose charts the peaks and valleys of Nixon's first fifty years -- his critical support as a freshman congressman of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; his involvement in the House Committee on Un-American Activities; his aggressive pursuit of Alger Hiss; his ambivalent relationship with Eisenhower; and more. It is the consummate biography; it is a stunning political odyssey.
language: English
title: Nixon Volume 1: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962
titlecomplete: Nixon Volume 1: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962
genres: Biography, Reference, Politics, Presidents, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Us Presidents, History, 20th Century
ratings_count: 728
series: Nixon
publisher: Simon & Schuster