The Nixon Presidency - 9780367500924

Taylor & Francis

The Nixon PresidencyAuthor(s): Timothy N. Thurber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367500924, 978-0367500924\nSynopsis\nThe Nixon Presidency is a concise and accessible survey of domestic policy, foreign affairs, and politics during the thirty-seventh presidents time in office.\n\nRichard Nixon was the most polarizing president of the twentieth century and one who continues to fascinate observers of American political life. Admirers saw him as the personification of the American dream of upward mobility and their ally against threats at home and abroad. Detractors considered him a deceitful, sinister figure who threatened democracy, was wrapped up in Watergate, and perpetuated an immoral war in Vietnam. As time passes, new questions and insights into the Nixon era arise and various phenomena, such as the expansion of the welfare state, the growth of the administrative state, the evolution of the Republican and D.