Richard Nixon: The Life

"He seethes and rages at the press, which he casts as his enemy. He spends decades with his nose pressed up against the glass, looking in on the establishment, longing for its acceptance, and raging at its rejection. And then, suddenly, he taps into an undercurrent of populism that establishment didn’t quite understand, and he makes it to the White House. But investigations loom. You get the picture. Even without eye-popping parallels on seemingly every other page, John Farrell’s book would be a top-tier political biography. With Donald Trump in the White House, it’s essential political reading."

"John A. Farrell's excellent and penetrating 737-page biography"