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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man by Garry Wills

17 Oct 2023

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Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694339to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man Author: Garry Wills Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous 'enemies list,' Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often 'very amusing' look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews). Arguing that Nixon was a reflection of the country that elected him, Wills examines not only the psychology of the man himself and his relationships with others—from his wife, Pat, to his vice-president, Spiro Agnew—but also the state of the nation at the time, mired in the Vietnam War and experiencing a cultural rift that pitted the young against the old. Putting his findings into moral, economic, intellectual, and political contexts, he ultimately 'paints a broad and provocative landscape of the nation's—and Nixon's—travails' (The New York Times). Simultaneously compassionate and critical, and raising interesting perspectives on the shifting definitions of terms like 'conservative' and 'liberal' over recent decades, Nixon Agonistes is a brilliant and indispensable book from one of America's most acclaimed historians.

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