In what ways is Richard Nixon still with us in our political culture? John Farrell, author of "Richard Nixon: The Life," joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss Nixon’s Dickensian childhood and how it ...

With the increasing political polarization of the country, many progressives have looked at the presidency of Richard Nixon in a new light. They see a Republican who championed clean air and water ...

It's been almost 43 years since Richard Nixon's historic resignation as president. While Mr. Nixon's time in office may have ended in shame, a new book argues he had an outsized influence on our world ...

“He wasn’t easy to like,” John Farrell writes in the opening chapter of his new Richard Nixon biography. “He knew it, and it hurt.” The hurt part — the gnawing on grievances — emerges as a defining ...

The biography Richard M. Nixon, the latest installment in the American Presidents Series, portrays the 37th president as a paranoid leader who abused alcohol and drugs, had few friends and was ...

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When Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon attended Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s funeral in Cairo in 1981, U.S. Senator Bob Dole quipped that the three former presidents standing together ...

When Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon attended Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s funeral in Cairo in 1981, U.S. Sen. Bob Dole quipped that the three former presidents standing together ...

Richard Nixon has fascinated Americans, biographers and historians for the last 70 years, and, thanks to author John A. Farrell and his new book Richard Nixon: The Life (Doubleday, 752 pp., ***½ out ...