Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full - Hardcover

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now separates the good in Nixon-his foreign initiatives, some of his domestic policies, and his firm political hand-from the sinister, in a book likely to generate enormous attention and controversy. Black believes the hounding of Nixon from office was partly political retribution from a lifetimes worth of enemies and Nixons misplaced loyalty to unworthy subordinates, and not clearly the consequence of crimes in which he participated. Conrad Blacks own recent legal travails, though hardly comparable, have undoubtedly given him an unusual insight into the pressures faced by Nixon in his last two years as president and the first few years of his retirement.

Conrad Black is the author the bestselling Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. He is the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc. and of the London Daily and Sunday Telegraph, and, with associates, was the controlling shareholder of those newspapers and the Spectator (UK), Chicago Sun-Times, Jerusalem Post, and many other publications. He has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001. He is a member of the editorial board of the National Interest, and a trustee of the Nixon Center in Washington. Black divides his time between London and Toronto.