The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, 2 volumes (Easton Press Collector's Edition)

NIXON, Richard. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988. 2 vols.

Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Covers with presidential seal in gilt. Spines with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Presidential seal endpapers. Satin ribbon page markers. (xii), 1,118 pp. in continuous pagination across both volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's Library of the Presidents collector's notes laid in. Two-volume Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Library of the Presidents series. Originally published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1978.

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913–1994) served as the thirty-seventh President of the United States from January 1969 to August 1974, when he became the only person in American history to resign the office. The circumstances of that resignation — the Watergate break-in of June 1972, the cover-up that consumed the subsequent two years, the Saturday Night Massacre, the release of the White House tapes, and the final collapse of his political support in the summer of 1974 — constitute one of the defining episodes in the history of American democracy, a systematic abuse of executive power that ended only when its continuation became politically impossible.

Nixon's memoir is not a confession and was not intended to be. It is a defence, carefully constructed, of a man who believed to the end that his accomplishments in foreign policy outweighed his failures in domestic conduct. The argument is not without substance, and the book remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the most complicated and self-contradictory figure to occupy the American presidency in the twentieth century.

The Easton Press two-volume edition, the scarcer of the two formats in which it was published, presents the complete text with the full apparatus of the Library of the Presidents series.

Very good. Some loss to gilt on covers of both volumes. Scattered markings along gilt edges of both volumes. Contents fine, clean and bright throughout. Sans slipcase.

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Catalogue Number: HH000478