It's tough to imagine Richard Nixon portrayed in a positive light. Over the years, he has been described as paranoid, cagey, bitter, divisive, and despite his protestations, a crook. Nixon's presidency - and to a some extent, his tenure in the Senate, where he earned the "Tricky Dick" moniker - inspired many of these portrayals. Yet in Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage (Simon & Schuster), Jeffrey Frank manages to depict Nixon in a sympathetic light, not by whitewashing his d...
It's tough to imagine Richard Nixon portrayed in a positive light. Over the years, he has been described as paranoid, cagey, bitter, divisive, and despite his protestations, a crook. Nixon's presidency - and to a some extent, his tenure in the Senate, where he earned the "Tricky Dick" moniker - inspired many of these portrayals. Yet in Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage (Simon & Schuster), Jeffrey Frank manages to depict Nixon in a sympathetic light, not by whitewashing his d...
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