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A Life in Full
by Conrad Black
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now separates the good in Nixon - his foreign initiatives, some of his domestic policies, and his firm political hand - from the sinister, in a book likely to generate enormous attention and controversy.
Black believes the hounding of Nixon from office was partly political retribution from a lifetime's worth of enemies and Nixon's misplaced loyalty to unworthy subordinates, and not clearly the consequence of crimes in which he participated. Conrad Black's own recent legal travails, though hardly comparable, have undoubtedly given him an unusual insight into the pressures faced by Nixon in his last two years as president and the first few years of his retirement.
"Starred Review. Black's superb volume, incorporating much new research, is an important and worthy addition to the literature. " - PW.
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63-year-old Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. He is the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc. and of the London Daily and Sunday Telegraph, and, with associates, was the controlling shareholder of those newspapers and the Spectator (UK), Chicago Sun-Times, Jerusalem Post, and many other publications. Canadian-born, he gave up his Canadian citizenship to become a member of the British House of Lords in 2001.
The "recent legal travails" refers to the guilty verdict on four charges including mail fraud and obstruction of justice brought against him in July 2007. he was sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. In 2011 two of the charges were overturned on appeal and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison on one count of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. Black was released on 4 May 2012.
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