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Article: Another 'October Surprise'.(Review)
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- The Nation
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- November 6, 2000
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THE ARROGANCE OF POWER:
The Secret World of Richard Nixon.
By Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan.
Viking. 640 pp. $29.95.
Poor Anthony Summers--he writes a 600-page book on Nixon based on massive and exhaustive research, including interviews with a thousand people and 120 pages of documentation--and all the media care about are the couple of pages he devotes to pill-popping and wife-beating. The same thing happened with his J. Edgar Hoover bio, which is remembered mostly for that unforgettable cross-dressing story.
But The Arrogance of Power has historical significance. It shows definitively that during the last weeks of the 1968 election campaign--when ...