The Nixon enigma.(Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image )(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003 by Bennett, Drake
NIXON'S SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF AN IMAGE BY DAVID GREENBERG * W. W. NORTON & COMPANY * 384 PAGES * $26.95 IN THE OPENING PAGES OF NIXON Agonistes, his peripatetic meditation on the 1968 presidential campaign, Garry Wills recalls watching Richard Nixon give a stump speech in a small town in Wisconsin: I am off to one side, where I see nothing but shadow bent distortedly onto the wall by insistent television lights--shadows, rather, since the angled lights give him one dark silhouette and a lighter "ghost" askew of it.
Doubled hands rise ...
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