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N E W   Y O R K, Aug. 29 -- A new biography of Richard M. Nixon, which describes the nation’s 37th president as a user of mood-altering drugs who once beat his wife, is being characterized ...
ONE OF US: RICHARD NIXON AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. Tom Wicker. Random House. 731 pages. $24.95. Not since James Knox Polk, who kept a meticulous diaryhave Americans known a president as seemingly sel… ...
ENGLISH-BORN biographer Anthony Summers, whose new book brands Richard Nixon as a ruthless drug-addicted wife-beater, has made a career out of shattering American icons. In earlier books, Summers p… ...
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 ...
Dole was kidding. Anthony Summers is not. Summers’ new book (“Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon”) is not so much biography as it is demonology, a sort of dark cartooning.