Nixon′s Shadow – The History of an Image

To his conservative supporters in 1940s southern California Richard Nixon was a populist everyman; to liberal intellectuals of the 1950s he was Tricky Dick a devious manipulator; to 1960s radicals a shadowy conspirator; to the Washington press corps a pioneering spin doctor; to his loyal Middle Americans a victim of liberal hatred; to recent historians an unlikely liberal. Nixons Shadow rediscovers these competing images of the protean Nixon showing how each was created and disseminated in Ameri...See More