Summary

In this provocative and revelatory assessment of America's most complicated president, the only one ever forced to resign, legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew raises the question of whether Richard M. Nixon was fit to hold the highest office in the land. Drew shows that the traits that led to Nixon's downfall - anger, paranoia, vindictiveness - were within him from his early life. This carefully researched book offers a new and startling perspective on the life, politics, and policies of our thirty-seventh president. Book jacket.