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Just plain Dick : Richard Nixon's Checkers speech and the "rocking, socking" election of 1952 / Kevin Mattson.
- Title
- Just plain Dick : Richard Nixon's Checkers speech and the "rocking, socking" election of 1952 / Kevin Mattson.
- Author
- Mattson, Kevin, 1966-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- 260 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A behind-the-scenes, sixtieth anniversary commemoration of the thirty-seventh President's famous "Checkers" speech demonstrates how it salvaged a psychologically troubled Nixon's position on Eisenhower's Republican ticket, set the tone for the 1952 campaign, and reflected period politics and culture.
- Alternative Title
- Richard Nixon's Checkers speech and the "rocking, socking" election of 1952
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-248) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Portrait of the young political artist as madman (from the inner cranium to history) -- Anxieties-- of a Cold War spring and an "inside dopester" -- A summer of "the Great Salesroom" -- "A wonderful guy" -- "Chin up" -- "American has taken Dick Nixon to its heart" -- The dog that bit.
- ISBN
- 9781608198122 :
- 160819812X
- OCLC
- 778421812
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library