Nixon Booklist

Richard M. Nixon

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • A Nixon Man
    Author: Cahill, Michael
    Publisher: Buzz List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312187491 Date: 1998
    star Kirkus
    A charming yet realistic coming-of-age novel as seen through the eyes of a young boy in San Francisco in the early 1970s. In S.E. Hinton-like prose and with a nifty West Coast setting, A Nixon Man tells what happens when a boy's father is left without his hero.
  • Elvis and Nixon
    Author: Lowry, Jonathan
    Publisher: Crown $ 22.95 ISBN: 0609608185 Date: 2001
    star Kirkus
    Equal parts documentary, myth, and hallucination, Elvis and Nixon is a fictional two-week road trip through one of the most bizarre and untethered eras in America's history, presided over by two of its greatest icons.
    Suggested Reading: Alternative History Stars | Elvis
    Updated 1/18/01
  • Nixon/Carver: A Novel
    Author: Maxwell, Mark
    Publisher: St Martin's List Price: $ 19.95 ISBN: 0312181469 Date: 1998
    star Kirkusstar LJ
    Richard Nixon and Raymond Carver are walking on a California beach when they meet in this imaginative novel that creates a fictional friendship between the ex-president and the short story writer.
  • The Pumpkin Papers
    Author: Oeste, Bob
    Publisher: Random $ 23 ISBN: 0679448373 Date: 1996
    star Bookliststar LJ
    The long-forgotten Alger Hiss case provides the key to a 50-year-old conspiracy of blackmail, espionage and assassination on both sides of the crumbling Iron Curtain. Joe Pope, a congressional investigator back in '48, is trying to enjoy his retirement in Key West when his ex-boss convinces him that there's a piece of incriminating microfilm in existence that could "rewrite the history of the 20th century".
    Updated 12.5.05

Nonfiction

  • Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon
    Author: Emery, Fred
    Publisher: Times $ 27.50 ISBN: 0812923839 Date: 1994
    star Bookliststar LJ | Choice Outstanding Books
    Nearly 20 years ago, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States, the only U.S. president ever to do so. Emery was a reporter covering Watergate as it happened, and, in addition to this book, his is the on-air voice and consultant to a 5-part series on Watergate, from the Discovery Channel.
    Updated 12.5.05
  • Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image
    Author: Greenbert, David
    Publisher: Norton $ 26.95 ISBN: 0393048969 Date: 2003
    star Kirkus
    Nixon's Shadow rediscovers the competing images of the protean Richard Nixon, showing how each was created and disseminated in American culture and how Nixon's tinkering with his own image often backfired.
    Updated 12.27.05
  • Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs Helen Gahagan Douglas - Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950
    Author: Mitchell, Greg
    Publisher: Random $ 25 ISBN: 0679416218 Date: 2006
    star LJ
    Drawing on recently discovered unpublished documents from Nixon's 1950 campaign for the Senate, this rousing narrative--featuring such luminaries as Earl Warren, Cecil B. DeMille, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan--exposes the Red-baiting strategy used against Nixon's opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas, and shows what it was like to be a female politician long before the "Year of the Woman".
    Updated 11.22.05
  • President Nixon: Alone in the White House
    Author: Reeves, Richard
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 35 ISBN: 0684802317 Date: 2001
    star Booklist | Booklist Editors' Choice
    Just when it seems that there is absolutely nothing more to be said about Nixon, syndicated columnist Reeves comes upon some newly discovered or declassified documents to present an account of the brilliant and isolated man who destroyed his own presidency.
    Updated 12.5.05