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Article: Nixon Rising.(Review)
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- National Review
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- October 11, 1999
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The Contender: Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946-1952, by Irwin F. Gellman (Free Press, 590 pp., $30)
A quarter-century after Richard Nixon was jeered from the presidency, it has become customary to read his whole career as a prelude to that spectacular disgrace. Historians scan every step of Nixon's rise for evidence of the bitterness, paranoia, and dishonesty that would turn his countrymen against him in 1973 and 1974. Chapman University historian Irwin Gellman, having mined the archives of the Richard Nixon Library, thinks that's a mistake. In the opening volume of a projected multi-volume biography, Gellman follows Nixon from his first congressional ...