The former president draws portraits of major political and military figures of our times--including MacArthur, Shigeru Yoshida, Adenauer, de Gaulle, Zhou Enlai, Mao, Churchill, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev

The first book to present America's most controversial president in his own words across his entire career, this unique collection of Richard Nixon's most important writings dramatically demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life. This volume gathers everything from schoolboy letters to geostrategic manifestos and Oval Office transcripts to create a fascinating portrait of Nixon, one that is enriched by an extensive introduction in which Rick Perlstein puts forward a major reinterpretation of the thirty-seventh president's rise and fall.

This anthology includes some of the most famous addresses in American history, from Nixon's "Checkers" speech (1952) and "Last Press Conference" (1962), to the "Silent Majority" speech (1969) and White House farewell. These texts are joined by campaign documents--including the infamous "Pink Sheet" from the 1950 Senate race--that give stark evidence of Nixon's slashing political style. Made easily available here for the first time, these writings give new depth to our understanding of Nixon.

Explaining the most fundamental processes of modern social behavior isn't the province of the Ivy League intellectuals alone, as this book clearly demonstrates. The current challenges of modern social philosophy are examined so that the true causes and effects of human behavior are unraveled from a completely novel perspective. Religious inclinations, political thought, sexuality, racism and other hot-button themes that underpin the fragile foundation of modern civilization, are discussed with an in-depth look at the facts, that will lead to a deeper understanding of these important social issues. The book offers an engaging and intellectually stimulating read on social philosophy, which aims at suggesting new ways to describe and interpret the complex dynamics of modern society. The reader will be pleased to confirm the subtle truisms he or she has always known, discover new insights and perspectives, and be stimulated to think anew about life and living.

The major immediate goal of our foreign policy is to bring an end to the war in Vietnam in a way that our generation will be remembered not so much as the generation that suffered in war, but more for the fact that we had the courage and character to win the kind of a just peace that the next generation was able to keep.

The major immediate goal of our foreign policy is to bring an end to the war in Vietnam in a way that our generation will be remembered not so much as the generation that suffered in war, but more for the fact that we had the courage and character to win the kind of a just peace that the next generation was able to keep.

The major immediate goal of our foreign policy is to bring an end to the war in Vietnam in a way that our generation will be remembered not so much as the generation that suffered in war, but more for the fact that we had the courage and character to win the kind of a just peace that the next generation was able to keep.