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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795410903321

Autore

Li Victor

Titolo

Nixon in New York : how Wall Street helped Richard Nixon win the White House / / Victor Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-68393-001-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 pages)

Collana

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Disciplina

973.924092

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 1968

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 "You Won't Have Nixon to Kick Around Anymore!" -- 2 "A Politician Does Not Change His Base." -- 3 "The Fast Track." -- 4 "I Have Never Asked Anybody for Business." -- 5 "There But for the Grace of God Go I." -- 6 "Mentally Dead in Two Years and Physically Dead in Four." -- 7 "Why Are These Men for Nixon?" -- 8 "A Chronic Campaigner" -- 9 "I Always Knew I Wouldn't Be Permitted to Win a Big Appeal against the Press." -- 10 "The Purpose of This Group Is to Begin Planning, Now, to Win the Nomination." -- 11 "He Wanted Prestige." -- 12 "The Word Is Out That Mudge Rose Is In." -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

This book details Richard Nixon's years as a lawyer on Wall Street as a time of rebirth and reinvention, and how his firm served as a springboard to his successful comeback in 1968.