Nixon Volume I : The Education of a Politician 1913-1962

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 his ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60 and '62, Richard Nixon emerges life-size in all his complexity. New York Times bestselling author Stephen 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 and a stunning political odyssey. 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. Ambrose presents Nixon as the major figure in world politics after the age of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. Beginning in 1947, when as a freshman congressman he gave critical support to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, and continuing through to 1985, when he advised President Ronald Reagan before the Geneva Summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Nixon has been involved in every aspect of American foreign policy as a critic, advisor, participant or decisionmaker. In this authoritative work, he is portrayed as a very complex man. ISBN 0-671-52836-X: $22.95 This book is about one of the most complex and puzzling of our chief executives at the apogee of his career--rebounding from defeat to an innovative, high-risk presidency, already sowing the seeds of his ruin. Illustrated.

Presenting Nixon as the major figure in world politics after the age of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt, Ambrose has written a penetrating and balanced biography.

This is volume one of a biography of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon, covering his life from birth through 1962 v. 1. The education of a politician, 1913-1962 v. 2. The triumph of a politician, 1962-1972 v. 3. Ruin and recovery, 1973-1990. RICHARD NIXON had no famous ancestors, nor any who were rich.