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"In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous ""enemies list,"" Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often ""very amusing"" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews). Arguing that Nixon was a reflection of the country that elected him, Wills examines not only the psychology of the man himself and his relationships with others--from his wife, Pat, to his vice-president, Spiro Agnew--but also the state of the nation at the time, mired in the Vietnam War and experiencing a cultural rift that pitted the young against the old. Putting his findings into moral, economic, intellectual, and political contexts, he ultimately ""paints a broad and provocative landscape of the nation's--and Nixon's--travails"" (The New York Times). Simultaneously compassionate and critical, and raising interesting perspectives on the shifting definitions of terms like ""conservative"" and ""liberal"" over recent decades, Nixon Agonistes is a brilliant and indispensable book from one of America's most acclaimed historians."

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"Garry Wills is an adjunct professor and cultural historian in the Department of History at Northwestern University. He has written many acclaimed works on religion and on American history, including Lincoln at Gettysburg, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment; and the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant and Why I Am a Catholic. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, he studied for the priesthood and took his doctorate in the classics. Adam Barr, a recovering lawyer, former golf industry executive, former singing telegram messenger, and former print and television reporter, now bends the energy of all those ""formers"" toward his passion for acting and singing. He enjoys reading, rowing, baseball, music, cooking, wine, and cooking with wine while music is playing. He lives near New York City with his family."

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