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The many lives of Richard Nixon

A review of The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan. Tricky Dicky’s time in the wilderness was key to his success

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority Patrick J. Buchanan

The Crown Publishing Group, pp.392, £22.50, ISBN: 9780553418637

Winston Churchill once said of politics that it’s ‘almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics — many times.’ Perhaps no one personified this dictum better than Richard Milhous Nixon.

From his election to Congress in 1946 to his resignation from the presidency in 1974, Nixon had been written off time and again.

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