A review by tsharris
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man by Garry Wills

4.0

Not sure how well this book has aged - some sections don't feel especially relevant today - but Wills's book is an exceptional portrait not of Nixon so much as of the America that elected Nixon in 1968. Wills portrays Nixon as an avatar of the old authorities and shibboleths of American life that would be overturned by the convulsions of the late '60s/early '70s.