One Man Against the World

ISBN-13: 9781250092328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str.

Tim Weiner

Opis

A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner.

Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked. From the hail of garbage and curses that awaited Nixon upon his arrival at the White House, when he became the president of a nation as deeply divided as it had been since the end of the Civil War, to the unprecedented action Nixon took against American citizens, who he considered as traitorous as the army of North Vietnam, to the infamous break-in and the tapes that bear remarkable record of the most intimate and damning conversations between the president and his confidantes, Weiner narrates the history of Nixon's anguished presidency in fascinating and fresh detail. A crucial new look at the greatest political suicide in history, One Man Against the World leaves us not only with new insight into this tumultuous period, but also into the motivations and demons of an American president who saw enemies everywhere, and, thinking the world was against him, undermined the foundations of the country he had hoped to lead.

Recenzje

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O autorze

Tim Weiner war lange Journalist bei der "New York Times" und gilt als einer der intimsten Kenner des amerikanischen Geheimdienstsystems. Der Watergate-Skandal gab seinerzeit den Ausschlag für seinen Wunsch, investigativer Journalist zu werden. Für seine Reportagen und seine Berichterstattung über das geheime "National Security Program", das die CIA gemeinsam mit dem Pentagon heimlich ins Leben gerufen hatte, erhielt er zwei Pulitzer-Preise. Er berichtete als Korrespondent aus Afghanistan, Pakistan, dem Sudan und weiteren 15 Staaten. Für 'CIA. Die ganze Geschichte' wurde er 2007 mit dem National Book Award und dem Los Angeles Times Book Award for History ausgezeichnet.

Literaturpreise:

National Book Award 2007
Los Angeles Times Book Award for History 2007