{"product_id":"9781504045407","title":"Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith a new preface: A “stunning” analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eLincoln at Gettysburg \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon’s infamous “enemies list,” Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often “very amusing” look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Arguing that Nixon was a reflection of the country that elected him, Wills examines not only the psychology of the man himself and his relationships with others—from his wife, Pat, to his vice-president, Spiro Agnew—but also the state of the nation at the time, mired in the Vietnam War and experiencing a cultural rift that pitted the young against the old. Putting his findings into moral, economic, intellectual, and political contexts, he ultimately “paints a broad and provocative landscape of the nation’s—and Nixon’s—travails” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Simultaneously compassionate and critical, and raising interesting perspectives on the shifting definitions of terms like “conservative” and “liberal” over recent decades, \u003ci\u003eNixon Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and indispensable book from one of America’s most acclaimed historians.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131381235952,"sku":"9781504045407","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504045407_p0.jpg?v=1769897568","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504045407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}