James' Thoughts and Musings

Michael Harrington.  Socialism .  New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.  See here to buy the book. Michael Harrington was an American ...

Actress Lauren Bacall has passed on.  I only saw a few of her movies with Humphrey Bogart.  I also saw her in the Stephen King movie Miser...

On page 223 of The Final Days , Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein say the following about President Richard Nixon's negotiations with th...

I read Richard Nixon's 1983 book, Real Peace .  This book overlapped in areas with the last foreign policy book by Nixon that I read, 19...

I read Richard Nixon's 1999: Victory Without War .  The book is entitled 1999 , but it was actually published in 1988.  Come to think o...

I finished Richard Nixon’s No More Vietnams .  In this book, Nixon defends the Vietnam War as a noble cause.  He critiques how his presid...

On page 371 of President Nixon: Alone in the White House , Richard Reeves talks about President Richard Nixon's belief that the U.S. G...

For my post today about Jonathan Aitken's Nixon: A Life , I'd like to comment on Aitken's treatment of Richard Nixon's 1946...

I was thinking about Fawn Brodie's biography of Richard Nixon while I was reading Jonathan Aitken's more positive portrayal.  Brodi...

I finished Julie Nixon Eisenhower's Pat Nixon: The Untold Story . 1.  Julie recounts that her mother as First Lady was devoted to rea...

My latest reading of Fawn Brodie's Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character was about the Alger Hiss case.  I won't go into a l...

President Richard Nixon wanted to pressure the CIA to limit the FBI's investigation into Watergate, and his rationale to CIA director R...

In my post today about Anthony Summers' The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon , I will write about the Alger Hiss c...

I finished Conrad Black's Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full .  On page 1052, Black says the following about Henry Kissinger's eulogy ...

For my blog post today about Conrad Black's Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full , I'll start with something that Black says on pages 4...

For my blog post today about Conrad Black's Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full , I'll use as my starting-point something that Black s...

For my blog post today about Conrad Black's Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full , I will use as my starting-point something that Black say...

For my blog post today about Conrad Black's Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full , my focus will be on Dwight Eisenhower's response to S...