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Nixon's first cover-up : the religious life of a Quaker president /

Have you ever thought you completely knew a story, inside and out, only to see some new information that shatters what you had come to accept as unquestioned fact? Well, Richard Nixon is that story, and Nixon's First Cover-up is that new information. With few exceptions, the religious ideologie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ingle, H. Larry (Homer Larry), 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Richard Nixon's evangelical Quaker heritage
  • Quaker upbringing, to 1934
  • A pivotal decision : Nixon and the military
  • Two friends and a friend
  • First Quaker Vice President
  • A Quaker and a Roman Catholic for president, again
  • The wilderness years, 1962-1968
  • Power corrupts gradually
  • Withdrawal from Vietnam
  • Nixon's need for religion
  • Watergate : the White House warp
  • Nixon in retirement, 1974-1994.