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The Contender : Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952 / Irwin F. Gellman.
Author
Gellman, Irwin F.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
1 online resource (619 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Details
Subject(s)
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994
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Political culture
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United States
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History
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20th century
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United States Congress House
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Biography
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Summary note
The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new preface Unsurpassed in the fifteen years since its original publication, Irwin F. Gellman's exhaustively researched work is the definitive account of Richard Nixon's rise from political unknown to the verge of achieving the vice-presidency. To document Nixon's congressional career, Gellman combed the files of Nixon's 1946, 1948, and 1950 campaigns, papers from the executive sessions of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and every document dated through 1952 at the Richard Nixon Library. This singular volume corrects many earlier written accounts. For example, there was no secret funding of Nixon's senate campaign in 1950, and Nixon won universal praise for his evenhandedness as a member of HUAC. The first book of a projected five-volume examination of this complex man's entire career, this work stands as the definitive political portrait of Nixon as a fast-rising young political star.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
Language note
In English.
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The Prerequisites for a Congressional Candidate
2. Nixon's First Primary
3. Nixon Versus Voorhis
4. Learning the Congressional Routine
5. Nixon and HUAC
6. The Herter Committee
7. Sharpening Foreign and Domestic Priorities
8. Running for Reelection
9. Moving Onto the National Stage
10. Nixon: Chambers Versus Hiss
11. The Pumpkin, Father Cronin, the FBI, and Duggan
12. Nixon, Communism, and the Truman Triumph
13. Stepping Sideways to Move Up
14. The 1950 Primary
15. Douglas Versus Nixon: The Issues
16. Fifty-one Days in the Fall: Nixon Versus Douglas- Reality and Legend
17. Communism and Korea
18. Corruption in the Highest Places
19. "Electability" and Other Issues
20. The 1952 Convention
Epilogue: Nixon and His Detractors- Whom Should We Believe?
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary of Characters
Index
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ISBN
0-300-22813-9
OCLC
984692321
Doi
10.12987/9780300228137
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