Nixon's Shadow The History of an Image [Paperback]

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.A penetrating analysis of how the president's legacy has altered American politics irrevocably.Enthralling, compulsively readable.[Greenberg] goes boldly where few men (and fewer liberal historians) have gone before.I am hard pressed to think of a book on politics as bracing and original as this one.A richly informed, attractively written history.A brilliant book full of fresh insight and analysis by one of the most original young minds among professional historians. The first serious and comprehensive look at Nixon by a writer of the new generation,Groundbreaking....A landmark in Nixon scholarship.How an image-obsessed president transformed the way we think about politics and politicians.