num_pages: 640
description: 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.
language: English
title: Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
titlecomplete: Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
characters: Richard Nixon
genres: 20th Century, Politics, Biography, Philosophy, United States, American History, Nonfiction, History, Presidents, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 562
publisher: Mariner Books