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Collection:
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Adult Nonfiction |
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Call Number:
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920 Nixon |
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Author:
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Farrell, John A. |
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Title:
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Richard Nixon |
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Remainder of title:
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the life |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It is a stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial portrait of a man who embodied postwar American cynicism. Within four years of that first win, Nixon would be a U.S. senator; in six the vice president of the United States of America. "Few came so far, so fast, and so alone," Farrell writes. Finally president, Nixon's staff was full of bright young men who devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, poverty, civil rights, and protection of the environment. It was a fine legacy, but Nixon cared little for it. He aspired to make his mark on the world stage instead, and his 1972 opening to China was the first great crack in the Cold War. Nixon had another legacy, too: an America divided and polarized. It was Nixon who launched the McCarthy era, who set South against North, and who spurred the Silent Majority to despise and distrust the country's elites. He persuaded Americans to gnaw, as he did, on grievances--and to look at one another as enemies. Finally, in August 1974, after two years of the mesmerizing intrigue and scandal known as Watergate, Nixon became the only president to resign in disgrace. Richard Nixon is an enthralling tour de force biography of our darkest president, one that reviewers will hail as a defining portrait, and the full life of Nixon readers have awaited"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780385537353 (hardback) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us--- |
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Classification number:
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E856 |
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Item number:
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.F37 2017 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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973.924092 |
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Classification number:
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B |
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Source of number:
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bisacsh |
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Classification number:
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BIO011000 |
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Classification number:
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BIO010000 |
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Classification number:
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HIS036060 |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Fuller form of name:
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(John Aloysius), |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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John A. Farrell. |
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Edition statement:
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First |
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Place of publication:
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New York, N.Y. |
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Name of publisher:
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Doubleday |
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Date of publication:
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2017 |
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New York : |
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Doubleday, |
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2017. |
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Extent:
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737 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |
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Other physical details:
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illustrations ; |
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Dimensions:
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25 cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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volume |
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nc |
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Bibliography, etc. note:
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Includes bibliographical references ((pages 689-699) and index. |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It is a stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial portrait of a man who embodied postwar American cynicism. Within four years of that first win, Nixon would be a U.S. senator; in six the vice president of the United States of America. "Few came so far, so fast, and so alone," Farrell writes. Finally president, Nixon's staff was full of bright young men who devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, poverty, civil rights, and protection of the environment. It was a fine legacy, but Nixon cared little for it. He aspired to make his mark on the world stage instead, and his 1972 opening to China was the first great crack in the Cold War. Nixon had another legacy, too: an America divided and polarized. It was Nixon who launched the McCarthy era, who set South against North, and who spurred the Silent Majority to despise and distrust the country's elites. He persuaded Americans to gnaw, as he did, on grievances--and to look at one another as enemies. Finally, in August 1974, after two years of the mesmerizing intrigue and scandal known as Watergate, Nixon became the only president to resign in disgrace. Richard Nixon is an enthralling tour de force biography of our darkest president, one that reviewers will hail as a defining portrait, and the full life of Nixon readers have awaited"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Donated by Andrew Fenniman 05/01/2017 |
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Purchase price:
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$ 35.00 |
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Personal name:
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Nixon, Richard M. |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1913-1994. |
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Fuller form of name:
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(Richard Milhous), |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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Presidents |
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Subject:
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. |
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Subject:
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. |
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Subject:
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic name:
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United States |
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General subdivision:
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Politics and government |
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Chronological subdivision:
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1969-1974. |
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Main entry heading:
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Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius), author. |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York : Doubleday, 2017 |
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Display text:
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Online version: |
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Title:
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Richard Nixon |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2016052160 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780385537360 |
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acquire |
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2 shelf copies |
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policy default |
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rf11 2016-11-07 |
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rf07 2016-11-08 (telework) to Dewey |
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rf10 2017-04-21 CIP ver. to LOAN |
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rf11 2016-11-07 ONIX to SL |
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xm09 2016-11-08 |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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Due Back |
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48419 |
920 Nixon |
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