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Article: President Nixon: Alone in the White House. (Political booknotes: solitary scribbler).
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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PRESIDENT NIXON: Alone in the White House
by Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster, $35.00
THE SCRIBBLERS, THE SCHOLARS, and the scribes may at last be able to come to closure with Richard Nixon. They have been on his case for a half-century without ever getting in a knockout punch; indeed, the only U.S. president ever forced to resign came oh-so-close to salvaging his shattered reputation before he died. The shelves already groan under the weight of books, articles, tapes, and transcripts.
So why bother with another? Why take one more shot at the Old Lion?
The answer is simple. President Nixon: Alone in the White House, by veteran national ...