| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Reinventing Richard Nixon: A Cultural History of an American Obsession. By Daniel Frick. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xii, 331 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1599-5.)

If this book had been written twenty or thirty years ago it might well have been titled, "Richard Nixon in the American Mind." It is of that genre of intellectual history that attempts to determine a prominent figure's deeds and character as perceived by the collective mind. The objective is to know the historical figure better, to take one more step beyond traditional biography for a deeper understanding of the subject. If that is what Daniel Frick intended in his Reinventing Richard Nixon, he succeeded. For the most part, this is an excellent analysis of Richard M. Nixon. We are confronted with the many faces (and reinventions) of the man and how those changes have been reflected in the national mood and, of course, in the nation's politics.

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