PositiveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Farrell’s comprehensive, one-volume biography is welcome. The author is an investigative reporter, experienced biographer and a prodigious researcher—there are 124 pages of meaty endnotes. In lively, vigorous prose, he takes readers through Nixon’s career, offering incisive judgments and revealing details along the way ... Mr. Farrell is not afraid to judge Nixon severely, but he does not neglect his accomplishments.
James Traub
RaveThe Wall Street Journal...penetrating, detailed and very readable—with a different angle on this extraordinary man, highlighting his patriotic bravery ... Adams’s militancy—the theme of Mr. Traub’s splendid biography—had proved both potent and prophetic.
