In what ways is Richard Nixon still with us in our political culture? John Farrell, author of "Richard Nixon: The Life," joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss Nixon’s Dickensian childhood and how it ...

“He wasn’t easy to like,” John Farrell writes in the opening chapter of his new Richard Nixon biography. “He knew it, and it hurt.” The hurt part — the gnawing on grievances — emerges as a defining ...

It's been almost 43 years since Richard Nixon's historic resignation as president. While Mr. Nixon's time in office may have ended in shame, a new book argues he had an outsized influence on our world ...

Richard Nixon has fascinated Americans, biographers and historians for the last 70 years, and, thanks to author John A. Farrell and his new book Richard Nixon: The Life (Doubleday, 752 pp., ***½ out ...

With the increasing political polarization of the country, many progressives have looked at the presidency of Richard Nixon in a new light. They see a Republican who championed clean air and water ...

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When Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon attended Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s funeral in Cairo in 1981, U.S. Sen. Bob Dole quipped that the three former presidents standing together ...

Irish investigative reporter Anthony Summers' attention-getting new expose of Richard Nixon, "The Arrogance of Power," demonstrates what's best and worst about big-time New York book publishing. First ...

What the 2016 Democratic candidate and the 37th president have in common. — -- It’s become almost cliché in American politics to call a politician Nixonian or “like Nixon” -- and it’s rarely a ...

The classic campaign biography should sound like a chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In. It should present its hero as both liberal and conservative, fearless and cautious, witty and generous, as ...