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Article: Nixon, vol. 2, the Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972.
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- November 24, 1989
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Nixon: Volume II, The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972,
HOW DOES ONE deal with a biographer who admits that he and his wife once heckled his subject during a speech? His wife, whom he describes as his most valuable critic, kept insisting to the author as he was writing his study of the man, "God, how I hate him."
There is no doubt where Richard Nixon's principal biographer stands politically. Stephen Ambrose is a liberal Republican, dovish on foreign policy, a liberal's liberal on civil rights and welfare, and a believer in order (with some curious exceptions like his own heckling). All in all, he's a centrist, and although Ambrose loves his hero ...