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Reinventing Richard Nixon : A Cultural History of an American Obsession
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- Summary
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An examination of the figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Draws on references ranging from All in the Family to All the President's Men to show how Nixon...
An examination of the figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Draws on references ranging from All in the Family to All the President's Men to show how Nixon has remained one of America's most durable and multifaceted icons in the fierce debates over the import and meaning of the last sixty years of national life.
Details
- Creator
- Daniel Frick
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2008]
- ©2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (346 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780700635634, 0700635637
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Richard Nixon and the Many Faces of a Representative American -- 1. "Ragged Dick" Nixon, American Missionary -- 2. Jeremiah at San Clemente: Richard Nixon and the Decline of the American Republic -- 3. "Anyone Can Be the President": Behind the Mask of Success -- 4. The Self-Made Monster: America and the Myth of National Mission -- 5. Richard Mephisto Nixon: Further Adventures in American Political Demonology -- 6. "Never Give Up": American Orthodoxy, Revised Standard Version -- 7. Nixon, Now More than Ever -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Subjects
- Culture conflict -- United States.
- National characteristics, American.
- Political culture -- United States -- History.
- Popular culture -- United States -- History.
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
- Public opinion -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.