Theodore Harold White Bücher

Theodore White's autobiography is the story of a man who literally covered the world, who understood that world and wrote about it brilliantly. This is a marvelous rags-to-riches autobiography, thoughtful, dramatic and funny, filled with perceptive details about events and personalities. In his parade of people and events, we meet Douglas MacArthur, both as outcast and conqueror; listen to a troubled Eisenhower preparing to lay aside his uniform and plunge into politics; visit Mao Tse-tung in his cave in Henan; and trace the power-curve of America's greatness across the glory years at home and abroad. Prologue: The Storyteller Boston: 1915-38 Asia: 1938-45 Europe: 1948-53 America: 1954-63 Epilogue: Outward Bound Acknowledgments Index

End of the Postwar WorldSolitary ManRoad to Cedar PointFrom the Liberal Idea to the Liberal TheologyView from Key BiscayneBlue Collars and Bread-and-ButterDemocratic PrimariesA Party In Search of IdentityMcGovern's ArmyWeb of Numbers: A Message from the Census to Politics Confrontation at MiamiEagleton AffairRichard Nixon's Campaign: 'Out There'Power Struggle: President versus PressWatergate AffairShaping of the MandateMen and MachineryAppeal to the People: Verdict in NovemberTemptation of PowerAppendix AAppendix BIndex

This book describes Richard Nixon's rise and fall in politics.

In this, the last of his prize-winning series on American presidential politics, Theodore H. White explains the transformation of American politics over the past 25 years. He sets the stage by describing the forces molding American politics...from tv to the Great Inflation. He revisits elections, from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan, & suggests how future contests might develop. He argues that events shape the man rather than vice versa: "I have learned that such men are cast up by events & forces larger than individuals." "A clear & uncluttered look at the tumultuous decades in which we find ourselves."--B-O-T Editorial Review Board