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Nixon in Winter : The Final Revelations Hardcover – January 1, 1998

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Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is worn at edges wtih crease to rear upper corner and small nick to spine head. Boards bumps at spine ends and along rear lower edge. Small surface tear to paper at rear lower leading corner and faint marks to page block. Internally clean and spine is tight. AD

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480 pages
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English
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I. B. Tauris
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January 1, 1998
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9.57 x 1.5 x 6.54 inches
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1860642667
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978-1860642661
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ I. B. Tauris; First Edition (January 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1860642667
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1860642661
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.01 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.57 x 1.5 x 6.54 inches

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Monica Crowley is a host and political and foreign affairs analyst for the Fox News Channel, and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, The Monica Crowley Show.She has also been a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. She served as Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994, and wrote two bestsellers about her experiences, Nixon Off the Record and Nixon in Winter. She has also written for The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and the New York Post. She holds two Master's degrees and a Doctorate from Columbia University.

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Jeannie

Very interesting read of the pass. Read with an open mind! “at the time” and compare to now ！

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024

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It is good to read about a book of a president’s after thought. Specially it was written by a young person that was so mature and knowledgeable about politics and so close to Nixon! Very interesting read .

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2000

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Monica Crowley has written a gem of a book detailing aspects of the last four years of Richard Nixon's life. Born in 1968, the year of RN's first presidential victory, the young author served as foreign policy assistant to the 37th president during those last years,1990-4. What strikes the reader is the fact that Nixon was always the man in the arena. Although he resigned the presidency in 1974 RN continued to be a significant influence in foreign policy due to the sagacious advice he gave to his successors, both in public speeches, articles and books as well as in private briefings and memorandums.To use a showjumping analogy, he may no longer have been the man in the saddle, after 1974, but he was still in the arena constructing the course and putting a few others over the jumps! This is also a book about books. Nixon was a prolific author and Crowley worked on his last two books, 'Seize the Moment' and 'Beyond Peace,'. The author outlines the energy and passion of RN in his preparation of these publications.. Crowley divides her book into neat compartments. Thus, under the heading Nixon and the World, there are chapters on the end of the Cold War, China, the Gulf War and the legacy of Vietnam.There is also interesting chapters under Scandal and Reflections. The Nixon- haters will hate this book because it does not portray RN as the Devil, a fascist, evil or any other of the highly biased descriptions that this highly intelligent man and political strategist had to constantly endure throughout his political life. However, neither has Crowley simply written a puff-job on her former boss. She shows Nixon railing against his old enemies-Democrats, liberals, the media and even his own Republican side but there is also humour in RN's outbursts that frequently had me chuckling.Indeed, even though I work in the Australian media, it is hard not to sympathise with some of Nixon's allegations of continual media bias that he considered dated back to the Hiss affair. Above all Crowley has produced a lively read of America's GOP, (grand old pol), in the winter of his life, that allows the reader to make their own decisions on this complex political figure-surely a refreshing change from the ravings of some writers who attempt to reduce Nixon to the same level as themselves. In doing so, and in using an insider's knowledge of the man, Ms Crowley has provided much winter warmth.

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Jazz Fan

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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022

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I didn’t know a whole lot about President Nixon before reading this book. I knew about the Watergate scandal. What struck me most about this book is how he had to continue to live down his mistake with Watergate. No matter what he did before or after Watergate seemed to be define him. It made me wonder why aren’t we more forgiving as a country and also how can I be more forgiving of others in my life? Doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance? A clean slate? Monica did a fabulous job in this book. I’m glad I was able to find a used copy since it’s out of print. The story was straight from a President Nixon’s mouth. The chapter on family was especially poignant. I’m glad he had them and some close friends in his corner during the darkest days.

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Terry Lynch

Nixons world view explained well.

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014

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RICHARD NIXON is a tough read but well done. Ms. Crowley catches his persona well and shows his warts and wisdom. An excellent book for serious history readers. This is not for the knee jerk critics of Nixon.

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Nancy Riley

Very dry

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014

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All about Russia and very dry and boring. I was expecting a little more inside information concerning Nixion and the end of his life in politics. Of course he did not have the most exciting personality so maybe this is the best there was.

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Nathan A. Gordon

Nixon's "Post-Mortem" Campaign

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2005

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When I read that MSNBC was going to have Monica Crowley co-host a show with Ronald Reagan several months ago, I did a Google search and was pleased (and surprised) to see that she had actually wrote a follow-up to her first (and brief) book about her experiences as an aid to Richard Nixon in the years leading up to his death. This book is rather lengthy but in a good way since it offers a generous, nuanced look at our 37th President.

My guess is that Nixon would not have approved of all that Ms. Crowley writes about although Ms. Crowley rationalizes that Nixon must have known that she would write about her experiences with him.

Crowley's Nixon seems obsessed with justifying most of the decisions and actions that he took in his political career, especially the Presidential years. While we will never know for sure, Ms. Crowley does seem very successful in capturing the parts of Nixon that we never saw in public especially his "obsession" with improving his presidential legacy.

What I found particularly interesting--and worth the read alone--is Nixon's continued belief, right up until he died,that he was absolutely right to continue U.S. involvement in Vietnam for the first four years of his presidency. Nixon shows continued contempt (even in the 1990s) for those who chose not to serve in this cause (with special hostility for President Bill Clinton, whose victory over the first George Bush personally affronts him). Nixon also had plenty of contempt for the Congress for not allowing President Ford to "save" the cause in 1975 when North Vietnam would finally prevail.

I'm not sure that even Ms. Crowley is aware of how successful she is in putting the reader through long bouts of pain for those of us who lived through the sixties and early seventies with her vivid description of Nixon's reflections of how he wanted to prevail over the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong in South Vietnam in spite of the fact that this longest war in our history was tearing much of our country apart.

In fact, Ms. Crowley suggests that Mr. Nixon--even with hindsight--would unfortunately fight the Vietnam War in exactly the same way even though almost 20,000 more men died in a losing cause under "his watch"--most of whom were draftees.

So, if your politics need a passion fix--or if the old Nixon hostility has left you and you think you want it back--consider reading this old chestnut of a book and I promise you that you will get your political currents rejuvenated and approach today's current events with much more vigor and perception.

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Dave

Invaluable Details of Nixon's Final Years

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015

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For all his faults, Richard Nixon remains a fascinating study. I have read many books on Mr. Nixon, and this one, in addition to being well-written, is the only one that details the behind the scenes story of his final years and abrubt death. This book remains a valuable addition to the Nixon story and even 20 years after his death, I have come across no more detailed depictions of Mr. Nixon's final years. A must read for any student of Nixon.

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