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More copies of this ISBNTricky Dick & the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas - Sexual Politics & the Red Scare, 1950by Greg Mitchell
Synopses & ReviewsReview:"Revisionist commentary of recent years has sought to rehabilitate the late President Richard M. Nixon. He is presented as a flawed but colossal statesman, whose RealPolitic genius led to the opening of China, among other foreign policy triumphs. His role in the Watergate scandal is portrayed as a series of peccadilloes, venial sins of his craft as master politician. Greg Mitchell would have us believe otherwise. He has filtered through long-lost records of the 1950 California Senatorial race in which Nixon faced Helen Gahagan Douglas, former actress, progressive Democrat and proto-feminist. Nixon, fresh from his victory in the Alger Hiss case, won the race by portraying Douglas as The Pink Lady, a left-leaning Communist sympathizer. Mitchell demonstrates the cold-blooded deceit Nixon employed in destroying Douglas politically and provides ample evidence that 'Tricky Dick,' the sobriquet she coined, would also serve as a fitting epitaph for the only president in American history forced to resign in disgrace." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review) What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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