| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Nixon. By Iwan Morgan. (London: Arnold, 2002. xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-340-76031-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-340-76032-X.)
There is room in the already flooded Richard M. Nixon market for a crisp, one-volume synthesis of the available literature on the successes and travails of the thirty-seventh president. Iwan Morgan, a professor of American history at London Guildhall University, offers his Nixon as such an entry.	1
Deciding to treat his subject thematically offers the author an opportunity for the development of a hypothesis. An overarching judgment of Nixon does not exist, however. Perhaps this is for the best. Morgan is at his strongest in pointing out how the literature has yet to come to grips with Nixon and how much credit he should be given—or denied—for the development of American policy in the four decades of the Cold War. Thus, the book is properly contradictory in its assessment of Nixon the man, adopting the speechwriter Ray Price's observation in his memoir that Nixon had a dark side and a light side. Two chapters on foreign policy support a point of view that would seem to need no further support—that Nixon was a cold warrior. The chapter on domestic policy, the strongest of the book, shows Nixon's successes in domestic policy side by side with his general failures in economic policy.	. . .

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