The Memoirs of Richard Nixon

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 1120, [2] pages; Clean and secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket. Illustrated with 24 unnumbered leaves of plates. This is the autobiography of Richard Nixon, the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Before him only six men who held the office wrote comprehensive memoirs. Now, here is Richard Nixon's self-portrait: a major work of autobiography, an extraordinary historical document, and intensely personal memoir. Richard Nixon begins his story with his earliest recollections of a rural California boyhood and continues through the moment he and his family left the White House. A basic resource for historians and scholars, likely to engender as much debate and discussion as did the author himself. Here is the opportunity to see and to judge the kind of man Richard Nixon perceives himself to be; here he candidly analyzes his strengths and his weaknesses, his doubts and strong beliefs, his successes and failures, his good - and his bad - decisions. What kind of man was the first president to resign the office? Why did he do what he did? These are the things we want to know from the man himself; these are the things Richard Nixon tells us. .