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My account of Nixon is, first of all, is greatly influenced by my collaboration with the filmmaker Fax Bahr, with whom I developed the story structure of these essays.  Both of us in turn were influenced by writers of great insight, beginning with the works of Stephen Ambrose, Fawn Brodie, Stanley Kutler, Bruce Mazlish, and Garry Wills.  My division of Nixon's career into three "Acts" is very much influenced by Ambrose's periodization in his magnificent three-volume chronicle.  Woodward and Bernstein's journalistic works are a foundation for every student of Richard Nixon, of course, as are the many memoirs of Nixon's closest associates.  In recent years, a new wave of searingly critical scholarship has appeared, prompted in part by ongoing releases of Nixon's infamous tapes and formerly unavailable documents.  The darkest predictions of earlier writers have only been vindicated by the latest revelations.  Two outstanding examples of recent work are by key persons in the Watergate crisis:  John Dean's The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It (NY: Viking, 2014), and Bob Woodward's The Last of the President's Men (Simon & Schuster, 2015) Both are gifts to history.  Dean himself, with headphones and a playback button, painstakingly re-transcribed hundreds of hours of Watergate tapes, with the ear of a man who was in the room and knew the voices very well.  Woodward persuaded Alexander Butterfield, Haldeman's "chief of staff" and the man who installed and revealed the massive Nixon taping system, to tell his entire story for the first time.  His portrait of a man whom he saw nearly every day at work as President of the United States, is deeply damning and will be difficult to expunge in the centuries to come.  These along with other important recent works on Nixon's foreign policy, consistently support the most alarming and condemnatory conclusions of my own essays on the 37th President of the United States of America.  As one reviewer observes, even the most sympathetic recent defender, Evan Thomas, in Being Nixon: A Man Divided (Random, 2016) "gives his readers so many details of Nixon’s bad behavior that Thomas’s intention to write a sympathetic account collapses under the weight of its own facts," making it much "harder to excuse his repeated transgressions—of ethical standards, of the law, of democratic values"Note.

Below is a list of works on which this essay owes a general or a specific debt.  Specific debts are citations of fact or quote, which are cited specifically as "Notes" following the relevant sentences or paragraphs in the text.  Those pop-up notes cite a short form, such as "Avandi 2014: p. 32," pointing to the full citations in this document. 

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Alvandi, Roham.  Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Ambrose, Stephen.  Nixon, Vol. 1: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962.  Simon and Schuster, 1987.

                               Nixon, Vol. 2: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972.  Touchstone, 1990.

                               Nixon, Vol. 3: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990.  Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Anderson, Terry H.  The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Bernstein, Carol, and Bob Woodward, All the President's Men.  Warner Books, 1974.

Brodie, Fawn.  Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character.  W.W. Norton, 1981.

Burr, William, and Kimball, Jeffrey P.  Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War. University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Coffey 2012.  Coffey, Justin P.  "Spiro T. Agnew: The Decline of Moderates and Rise of the Republican Right."  In Gifford and Williams 2012: pp. 243-260.

Dean, John W. The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It. Penguin Books, 2014.

Dochuk, Darren  (2011)  From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism.  New York: W.W. Norton.

Farrington 2012.  Farrington, Joshua D. "'Build Baby Build': Conservative Black Nationalist, Free Enterprise, and the Nixon Administration."  in Gifford and Williams 2012: pp. 61-82.

Garrow, David J. (1986) Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: HarperCollins.

Glassner, Barry. (2010) The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More. New York: Basic Books.

Greenberg, David. (2000) “Was Nixon Robbed?” Slate (16 October) www.slate.com. Article URL http://www.slate.com/id/91350.

Greenberg, David. (2004) Nixon's Shadow: The History of the Image. New York: W.W. Norton.

Halberstam, David. (2000) The Powers that Be. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press. [first published by Knopf, 1975].

Haldeman 1994.  Haldeman, H.R., Introduction and Afterword by Stephen E. Ambrose.  The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House.  New York.  G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Hersh, Seymour M.  The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.  Simon and Schuster, 1983.

Hughes, Ken. 2015  Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection. University of Virginia Press.

Gifford and Wiliams 2012.  Gifford, Laura Jane, and Williams, Daniel K.  The Right Side of the Sixties: Reexamining Conservatism's Decade of Transformation.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kabaservice 2012.  Kabaservice, Geoffrey.  Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party.  New York.  Oxford University Press.

Kaiser, Robert G. 2016. "The Disaster of Richard Nixon,"  The New York Review of Books, 21 April 2016.

Kallina, Edmund F. (1988) Courthouse over White House: Chicago and the Presidential Election of 1960. Miami: University Press of Florida.

Kimball 1998.  Kimball, Jeffrey.  Nixon's Vietnam War.  University Press of Kansas.

Kutler, Stanley I.  The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. Norton 1992.

Kutler Stanley I., Ed.  Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes.  New York: The Free Press. 1997. 

Matthews, Christopher.  Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America.  Touchstone, 1996.

Mazlish, Bruce.  In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry.  Basic Books, 1972.

McGinnis, Joe.  The Selling of the President 1968.  Simon and Schuster, 1969.

Mitchell, Greg. Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady. New York: Random House, 1998.

Mulloy, D.J. 2014. The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Nixon, Richard M. (1962) Six Crises. New York: Doubleday.

Nixon, Richard M. (1978) RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Grosset & Dunlap; First edition (May 1978)

Pape 1996.  Pape, Robert A.  Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.  Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press.

Perlstein, Rick.  Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.  New York: Scribner, 2008.

Reeves 2001.  Reeves, Richard.  2001. President Nixon: Alone in the White House.  New York: Simon and Schuster. 

Sargent, Daniel J.  A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Schell, Jonathan.  The Time of Illusion.  New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

Schulman and Zelizer 2008.   Schulman, Bruce J., and Zelizer, Julian E.  Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Skowronek 1997.  Skowronek, Stephen.  The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton.  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Summers, Anthony, with Robbyn Swan.  The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.  New York, Viking Press, 2000.

Thomas, Evan.  2016.  Being Nixon: A Man Divided. New York: Random House.

Voorhis, Jerry. The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon. New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1972.

Weiner, Tim. 2015.  One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon.  New York: Henry Holt and Co. 

Wills, Garry.  Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.  New American Library, 1971.


 

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