"Terrifically engaging...A fair, insightful and highly entertaining portrait of the 37th president...Being Nixon should be read by anyone with a more open mind about the oddest man ever to occupy the Oval Office." - Max Boot, The Wall Street Journal
Evan Thomas is the author of nine books- The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ike's Bluff, and Being Nixon. John Paul Jones and Sea of Thunder were New York Times bestsellers. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years (1986-96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweek's fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Report, and has been a guest on PBS's Charlie Rose more than forty times. The author of dozens of book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.
“A biography of eloquence and breadth . . . No single volume about
Nixon’s long and interesting life could be so
comprehensive.”—Chicago Tribune
“Terrifically engaging . . . a fair, insightful and highly
entertaining portrait of the thirty-seventh president . .
. Being Nixon should be read by anyone with a more open
mind about the oddest man ever to occupy the Oval Office.”—Max
Boot, The Wall Street Journal
“[A] fully rounded portrait, carefully pairing each indictment of
Nixon with a mitigating perspective . . . Thomas has a fine eye for
the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is
eminently readable.”—The New York Times Book Review
“From Nixon’s hardscrabble California childhood to his
post-presidential exile, Thomas proves an amiable and fair-minded
tour guide. . . . The result, in Thomas’s rendering, is a man of
intertwined threads, in some ways the personification of the
contending passions of American life of the period.”—The Boston
Globe
“How self-aware are the great men of history? That’s the
fascinating question at the heart of Evan Thomas’s new book on
Richard Nixon. . . . Here in one sharp and briskly written volume
is what you really want to know about the great and horrible
thirty-seventh President: How could someone so wise about the world
be so utterly clueless about himself? . . . [Nixon] is revealed in
Thomas’s hands as awkward, striving, victimized and alone—strange
habits for a man who opted for such a public life, and traits that
carried the seeds of his destruction.”—Time
“Ambitious . . . Thomas’s book is filled with anecdotes that
humanize Nixon. There are pages suggesting real insight and,
especially, how the president was seen by those around him. . . .
There are well-crafted word-pictures of Nixon throughout the
narrative, from his legendary awkwardness to his catastrophic
frustration and vindictive rage.”—Carl Bernstein, The Washington
Post
“A well-written and balanced account . . . gracefully written and
highly readable . . . [Thomas’s] interest goes to the man himself,
like most of us a man of contradictions, a man with a dark and
light side, with the dark side often leading to disastrous
decisions, encouraged by his increasingly tight circle of
self-serving advisers.”—The Washington Times
“[Nixon’s] oddity, more than any policy choices or impeachable
crimes, is the subject of this book, which is marked by unexpected
and startling empathy. . . . One feels for Nixon.”—The New
Yorker
“[A] glossy, armchair-ready biography . . . [a] book in tune with
our time. It’s a trick of fate that Nixon, a sitting president who
experienced a version of supersize public shaming, might have
appreciated for its futuristic appeal. Instead of being passively
read, Being Nixon invites argument.”—The New York Times
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