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Nixon Off the Record

by Monica Crowley

A memoir of Richard Nixon, written by a research consultant who served as his foreign policy assistant from 1990 to 1994. Crowley bases her recollections on her diary entries, in which she recounted her daily conversations with Nixon on subjects ranging from politics and foreign policy to music, movies, and travel.

Available editions of Nixon Off the Record

	9780375751356, Paperback, Random House Inc, 1998 $6.96 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780375751356

	9780679456810, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1996 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780679456810

Publisher Notes

Nixon and I met for the first time on October 2, 1989, and he was exceedingly generous with the commodity that was the most precious to him: time.... And, surprisingly for a man who had been so often damaged by those he trusted, Nixon trusted me immediately. I became a member of his small circle of advisers. I listened as he confided his views on international affairs and world leaders, American politics and policy, Watergate, and his own personal career, and human nature.--Monica CrowleyNixon off the Record is the unique story of Richard Nixons intense political life after he left the presidency--told by Monica Crowley, Nixons foreign-policy assistant and political confidante during the last years of his life.With fully reconstructed conversations based on extensive notes made at the time, Nixon off the Record puts the reader in the room with the thirty-seventh president, listening to his views on leadership, his opinions of White House predecessors and successors, his activities and thoughts during the 1992 presidential campaign and election, and his assessment of Bill Clintons first year in office and his potential challengers in 1996. Nixons views give voters uncommon criteria by which to measure presidential candidates--including Bob Dole--and their ability to exercise effective leadership.Richard Nixon was one of the most controversial and indestructible presidents of the twentieth century. With her privileged perspective and unlimited access to Nixon, Crowley has written a perceptive and spirited memoir that shows not just what Nixon thought in the last years of his life but who he was. She offers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes view of Nixons activities and opinions, giving the reader a front-row view of recent American political history.Nixon's unparalleled experience placed him in a unique position to judge leaders who had come before and after. His assessments are candid, astonishing, and sometimes explosive. This book places those judgments in context and brings them alive for the last American presidential election of the twentieth century.

Media Reviews

"This is the most honest profile of Richard Nixon that I've read--and I've reported on Nixon for 38 years."

Excerpt

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