Synopsis
About David Greenberg
See more books from this Authorin fact, Nixon reflected in one of his many memoirs, “In the modern presidency, concern for image must rank with concern for substance.” But Nixon, Greenberg argues, indeed authored that legacy and more: he gave us our current common-man image of the president, whether believable or not in his ca...
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Nov 16 2011 | Read Full Review of Nixon's Shadow: The History o...Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg 460pp, WW Norton, £20.95 The age of spin began in earnest when Richard Nixon sat in a television studio in New York on the evening of September 23, 1952, explaining to the largest audience ever assembled to hear a political speech t...
Oct 04 2003 | Read Full Review of Nixon's Shadow: The History o...(A pair of oral-history interviews Huston gave to the Nixon Presidential Library were released this year, corroborating Hughes’s account.) In March 1970, Huston told Haldeman that a former Defense Department staffer named Les Gelb — now a leading foreign policy wise man — had written some sort of...
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Aug 06 2014 | Read Full Review of Nixon's Shadow: The History o...(A pair of oral-history interviews Huston gave to the Nixon Presidential Library were released this year, corroborating Hughes’s account.) In March 1970, Huston told Haldeman that a former Defense Department staffer named Les Gelb — now a leading foreign policy wise man — had written some sort of...
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