The greatest comeback : how Richard Nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority /
After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life...
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New York :
Crown Forum,
[2014]
New York : c2014 |
| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- A loser in a party of losers
- Rapprochement with the right
- Comeback year
- Manila questions
- New recruits
- The Six-Day War and after
- "Year of the dropout"
- Assassinations and anarchy
- The wild card
- Montauk and Miami Beach
- At the "Comrade Hilton"
- Hearing footsteps
- 1 Loser---in a Party of Losers
- 2. Rapprochement with the Right
- 3. Comeback Year
- 4. Manila Questions
- 5. New Recruits
- 6. Six-Day War---and After
- 7. "Year of the Dropouts"
- 8. Assassinations and Anarchy
- 9. Wild Card
- 10. Montauk and Miami Beach
- 11. At the "Comrade Hilton"
- 12. Hearing Footsteps.