| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief. By Mark Feeney. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv, 422 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-23968-3.)

Mark Feeney, a writer for the Boston Globe and a lecturer in American studies at Brandeis University, has written an exceptionally interesting and innovative study that pushes the envelope in our understanding of Richard M. Nixon. He is to be complimented for trying something different. The book unfortunately pushes the envelope so much that the seams tear. It is no exaggeration to call portions of this book brilliant, but it is also inconsistent. In the end Feeney fails to support his thesis, and his analysis vastly exceeds the authority of his sources.

Feeney argues that with film

the character and image of each refracting and illuminating who Richard Nixon was and is in the American imagination. Just as in watching the movies he could help shape himself, so can watching the movies help how we shape him. (p. xiii, emphasis in original)

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