Richard Nixon/Bibliography

The Richard Nixon Bibliography includes major books and articles about President Richard Nixon and his policies.

Secondary sources

Biographies

• Aitken, Jonathan. Nixon: A Life (1993). Favorable.
• Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973–1990 (1991). The most detailed scholarly biographies (hostile).
• Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962–1972 (1989).
• Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913–1962 (1987).
• Greenberg, David. Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (2003). Important study of how Nixon was perceived by media and scholars.
• Hoff, Joan. Nixon Reconsidered (1994). Quite favorable.
• Morgan, Iwan. On Nixon (2002). Favourable British view.
• Morris, Roger. Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (1990).
• Parmet, Herbert S. Richard Nixon and His America (1990).
• Reeves, Richard. President Nixon: Alone in the White House (2002).
• Wicker, Tom. One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream (1991).

Pre 1968

• Gellman, Irwin The Contender: Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946 to 1952 (1999)
• White, Theodore The Making of the President, 1960 (1961) classic narrative of election
• White, Theodore The Making of the President, 1968 (1969) classic narrative of election

Political studies

• Bochin, Hal W. Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist Greenwood Press 1990
• Friedman, Leon and William F. Levantrosser, eds. Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator (1991), essays by scholars
• Genovese, Michael A. The Nixon Presidency: Power and Politics in Turbulent Times (1990)
• Greene, John Robert The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations (1992)
• Mason, Robert. Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004). 289 pp.
• Matusow, Allen J. Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars and Votes. U. Press of Kansas, 1998. 323 pp.
• Marvillas, Anthony Rama. "Nixon in Nixonland" Southern California Quarterly 2002 84(2): 169–181. Template:ISSN Examines the Nixonlanders, loyal supporters of Nixon throughout his political career, and how well Nixon fit their perception of his political views. Mostly Protestants and prosperous small business owners, the Nixonlanders opposed the New Deal's domestic programs and the Democrats' foreign policy. They believed in individualism, self-reliance, and thrift and stood fast against the Soviet Union and communism. These old guard Republicans believed Nixon shared these views, but in reality Nixon was far more pragmatic, distrusting wealthy Republicans and open to change. He considered himself a moderate Republican as defined by his mentor, Dwight Eisenhower, and thus was an "extremely imprecise fit" to the Nixonlander definition.
• Reichley, A. James Conservatives in an Age of Change: The Nixon and Ford Administrations (1981)
• Small, Melvin The Presidency of Richard Nixon (2003)
• Suri, Jeremi. Henry Kissinger and the American Century (2007)
• White, Theodore The Making of the President 1968 : A narrative History of American politics in Action (1969)
• White, Theodore The Making of the President, 1972 (1973)

Foreign policy

• Bundy, William. A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency. 1998. 647 pp. online review
• Daum, Andreas W.; Gardner, Lloyd C.; Mausbach, Wilfred, eds. America, the Vietnam War, and the World : Comparative and International Perspectives (Publications of the German Historical Institute) (2003)
• Gaddis, John Lewis Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy 1982.
• Goh, Evelyn. "Nixon, Kissinger, and the 'Soviet Card' in the U.S. Opening to China, 1971–1974." Diplomatic History 2005 29(3): 475-502. Template:ISSN Fulltext in Ingenta and Ebsco; Kissinger's use of the "Soviet card" in relations with China between 1971 and 1974 offers diplomatic historians an interesting, if not yet conclusive, perspective on the rise and fall of détente and the problems of "triangular diplomacy." Kissinger sought to play up the Soviet threat to the Chinese as a way of promoting closer relations with the PRC. While at times he suggested a U.S.-PRC alliance, declassified sources indicate that his suggestions were more hyperbole than actual U.S. policy. He was really using the Soviet threat as a means to a closer relationship with China, but one that was still subordinated to improved U.S.–Soviet relations. Unfortunately for Kissinger and the Nixon administration, the triangular diplomacy failed because of Chinese suspicions and the Watergate crisis.
• Kimball, Jeffrey P. Nixon's Vietnam War (2002)
• Levantrosser, William F. ed. Cold War Patriot and Statesman, Richard M. Nixon (1993), essays by scholars and senior officials.
• Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (1979), Simon and Schuster. Strong critique of Cambodia policy. Kissinger responds directly to Shawcross' claims in appendix to Years of Upheaval.
• Thornton, Richard C. The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping America's Foreign Policy (1989)
• Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf. "Taiwan Expendable? Nixon and Kissinger Go to China" Journal of American History 2005 92(1): 109–135. Template:ISSN Fulltext in History Cooperative and Ebsco. Analyzes U.S. policy toward China and finds that Nixon and Kissinger pursued a deeply flawed and ultimately harmful path toward establishing relations with Communist China. Nixon and Kissinger operated in secrecy in order to hide the "collateral damage" of their China policy, particularly the damage it did to the former U.S. client state of Taiwan.
• Warner, Geoffrey, “Nixon, Kissinger, and the Breakup of Pakistan, 1971,” International Affairs (London), 81 (Oct. 2005), 1097–1118.

Domestic policy

• Burke, Vincent J. Nixon's Good Deed: Welfare Reform (1974)
• Hood, J. Larry "The Nixon Administration and the Revised Philadelphia Plan for Affirmative Action: A Study in Expanding Presidential Power and Divided Government" Presidential Studies Quarterly 23 (Winter 1993): 145–67
• Flippen, J. Brooks. Nixon and the Environment (2000).
• Kotlowski, Dean J. Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy (2001).
• Kotlowski, Dean J. ; "Richard Nixon and the Origins of Affirmative Action" The Historian. Volume: 60. Issue: 3. 1998. pp. 523 ff.
• Kotlowski, Dean J. "Deeds Versus Words: Richard Nixon and Civil Rights Policy." New England Journal of History 1999–2000 56(2–3): 122–144. Abstract: Political considerations and his own personal views gave President Nixon a mixed record in the area of civil rights, which included such advances as the implementation of affirmative action, school desegregation, and other types of economic support promoting racial equality, but opposed busing, ignored women, and made compromises to placate Southern conservatives.
• McAndrews, Lawrence J.; "The Politics of Principle: Richard Nixon and School Desegregation" The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 83 #3, 1998 pp 187+
• O'Reilly, Kenneth Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton (1995)
• Matusow, Allen J. Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes (1998)
• Schell, Jonathan "The Time of Illusion" Vintage (1976)
• Sussman, Glen and Daynes, Byron W. "Spanning the Century: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and the Environment." White House Studies 2004 4(3): 337–354. Template:ISSN

Watergate

• Bernstein, Carl; Woodward, Bob All the President's Men (1974)
• Friedman, Leon and Levantrosser, William F. eds. Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon (1992), essays by scholars
• Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. (1990).
• Olson, Keith W. Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America. (2003). 220 pp.
• Schudson, Michael Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past (1993)

Primary sources

• U.S. State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States Nixon-Ford Administrations

By Richard Nixon

• The Challenges We Face: Edited and Compiled from the Speeches and Papers of Richard M. Nixon (1960) ISBN 0-7581-8739-4
• Six Crises, Doubleday (1962) ISBN 0-385-00125-8
• RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Simon & Schuster (Reprint, 1978) ISBN 0-671-70741-8
• The Real War. Sidgwich Jackson (1980) ISBN 0-283-98650-6. Written as a cri de coeur against what RN saw as serious threats to U.S. security from Soviet expansionism in the late 1970s
• Leaders. Random House (1982) ISBN 0-446-51249-4. A character study of various leaders that RN came to know during his career
• Real Peace. Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd (1984) ISBN 0-283-99076-7
• No More Vietnams Arbor House Publishing (1987) ISBN 0-87795-668-5
• 1999: Victory Without War Simon & Schuster (1988) ISBN 0-671-62712-0
• In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal Simon & Schuster (1990) ISBN 0-671-72318-9. A more personal memoir than RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, shows RN's reflections on life, politics and personal philosophy
• Seize The Moment: America's Challenge In A One-Superpower World Simon & Schuster (1992) ISBN 0-671-74343-0
• Beyond Peace. Random House (1994) ISBN 0-679-43323-6

By aides and officials

• Ehrlichman, John D. Witness to Power. The Nixon Years (1982)
• Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership (2000)
• Haldeman, H. R. ('Bob') The Haldeman Diaries. Inside the Nixon White House (1994), abridged version; complete diaries were published on CD-ROM by SONY
• Kissinger, Henry White House Years Little Brown & Co. (1979)
• Years of Upheaval (1982)
• Price, Raymond With Nixon (1977)
• Safire, William Before the Fall. An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House (1975)
• Stans, Maurice H.One of the President's Men: Twenty Years with Eisenhower and Nixon (1995)