
The bestselling author of PRESIDENT KENNEDY presents a stunning account of the brilliant & isolated man who destroyed his own presidency. PRESIDENT NIXON shows a man alone in a White House ruled by secrets & lies trying to impose old values at home & new balances of power everywhere in the world. Reeves proves that the Watergate scandal was no abberation in an administration foreshadowed by a series of successful uses of national security to cover coups burglaries lies the abandonment of Americas allies
- & even murder. Reeves portrays a man of vision & iron will who created used & was used by a small cast of hard ambitious men who formed a poisonous circle around their insecure leader. Alone Nixon challenged & changed the worlds political & military balance while also plotting to destroy both the Democratic & Republican parties in an attempt to create secretly a new party of the centre. This account of Nixons stewardship will stand as the balanced authoratative portrait of an astonishng president & his ruined presidency.