Thankfully, journalist and academic Michael Dobbs rides to the rescue, bringing Watergate back into focus in his latest book, “King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: An American Tragedy” (Knopf ...

Richard Nixon was a stranger in his own very strange parallel-universe land.It is probably not unreasonable to conclude that all the men (so far) who have inhabited the White House were, each in ...

Richard Nixon has fascinated Americans, biographers and historians for the last 70 years, and, thanks to author John A. Farrell and his new book Richard Nixon: The Life (Doubleday, 752 pp., ***½ ...

A new book about the spiritual life of Richard Nixon is scheduled to be released Thursday, 50 years to the day after the 37th president of the United States announced his resignation amid the ...

Richard Nixon never lost the mind-set that pitted 'us' against 'them.' Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer. Why is Christian Science in our name?

The 1968 presidential election, Lawrence O'Donnell writes in 'Playing With Fire,' changed American politics. A 3.5-star book review.

As he lay in a hospital bed recovering from pneumonia on July 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon made a fateful decision. Some of his advisers were urging him to destroy secretly recorded tapes ...

One of Richard Nixon’s favorite quotes came from Charles de Gaulle: “There can be no power without mystery. . . . Nothing more enhances authority than silence.” One of Nixon’s abiding ...

America thought it knew Richard Nixon back then, when his very name summoned a pastiche of memories: an acidic California campaign for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas remembered as one of ...

All of this can be gleaned from Ann Beattie’s book “Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,” but it is hardly at the center. Beattie begins by listing the 11 nicknames Pat, born Thelma, went by.

A new book about the spiritual life of Richard Nixon is scheduled to be released Thursday, 50 years to the day after the 37th president of the United States announced his resignation amid the ...