LEADER 00000cam 2200433 i 4500 003 TLC 005 20150608220759.0 006 m d 007 cr unu|||||||| 008 150608s2015 nyu ob 001 0beng d 020 9780812995374 (electronic bk.) 035 (OCoLC)911264949 037 9A693990-D5FC-4153-ADE3-36359C0C56B2|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 TLC|cTLC|dTLC|erda 043 n-us--- 082 00 973.924092|aB 082 00 973.924092|aB|223 099 eBook OverDrive/Libby 100 1 Thomas, Evan,|d1951-|eauthor. 245 10 Being Nixon|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|ba man divided /|cEvan Thomas. 264 1 New York :|bRandom House,|c2015. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rda 380 Biography|2marcgt 380 eBook|2tlcgt 385 General|2tlctarget 500 Electronic book. 505 0 Introduction: The fatalistic optimist -- Part I. The striver -- Lives of great men remind us -- Pat and Dick -- The greenest congressman -- Rock 'em, sock 'em -- Checkers -- "El gringo tiene cajones" -- Jack -- Over the wall we go -- The new Nixon -- October surprise -- Part II. At the mountaintop -- "He loves being P!" -- Statesman and mad man -- "Need for joy" -- Silent majority -- The movie goer -- Hippies and hardhats -- Department of dirty tricks -- Father of the bride -- "Blow the safe" -- Part III. The fall -- Big plays -- Speak quietly -- Triumph and tragedy -- "An exciting prospect" -- Peace at last -- Ides of March -- Praying not to wake up -- Saturday Night Massacre -- "I hope I haven't let you down" -- "Richard! Wake up!" -- Elder statesman -- Epilogue: Rise again. 520 "Evan Thomas delivers the best single-volume biography of Richard Nixon to date, a radical, unique portrait of a complicated figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. The New York Times bestselling author of Ikes Bluff and Sea of Thunder, Thomas brings new life to one of American historys most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians, dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate and evenhanded look at the actual man"-- From publisher description. 533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cRandom House Publishing Group|d2015|nAvailable via World Wide Web. 600 10 Nixon, Richard M.|q(Richard Milhous),|d1913-1994. 650 0 Presidents|zUnited States|vBiography. 651 0 United States|xPolitics and government|y1969-1974. 655 7 Electronic books.|2local 710 2 OverDrive, Inc.,|edistributor. 856 40 |zAvailable on OverDrive/Libby|uhttps:// naperville.overdrive.com/media/9A693990-D5FC-4153-ADE3- 36359C0C56B2 856 42 |zClick here to access excerpt|uhttp:// samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9a693990-d5fc-4153-ade3- 36359c0c56b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com