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Article: The Presidency of Richard Nixon. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 2000
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Melvin Small. The Presidency of Richard Nixon. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. 387. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $29.95.
Melvin Small's The Presidency of Richard Nixon is a worthy addition to the constantly growing historiography on Nixon's important and complex political career. Small, a longtime professor of American history at Wayne State University in Detroit, has produced a masterful retelling of Nixon's six-year presidency based on several secondary sources and some primary documents. He has organized the book on a topical basis, an arrangement that allows the reader to understand the long-term development of the Nixon administration's ...