#Non-Fiction Nixon at the Movies
- Author: Mark Feeney
- Title: Nixon At The Movies (436 pg)
- Published: 2004
- Genre: non-fiction
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Conclusion:
- This book was a delight to read.
- I love politics and the movies!
- The author uses movies Nixon choose to see
- …some multiple times…to expose the character of Nixon.
- It is a combination of a psychological biography and cinematic history.
- Nixon was in The White House for 67 months.
- He screened no less than 500 movies!
- Nixon hated meeting people.
- But Nixon loved the movies
- Movies had all the vividness and pageantry of life
- —without any of the human complications.
- The movies were not only larger than life
- …they were safer than life.
- This quote in the epilogue sums it all up:
- “Where a Lincoln appeals to our aspirations,
- …a Kennedy to our fantasies
- …Nixon just is.”
- Trump spends his time on the golf course
- Obama romps on the basketball court and
- …Nixon at the Movies!
- #MustRead
Trivia:
- Favorite movie: Patton
- Favorite actor(s): John Wayne and Clint Eastwood
- Favorite genre: westerns
- Favorite director: John Ford
- Feeney graduated from Harvard in 1979.
- He and worked for the paper ever since, as a researcher, writer, and editor.
- A finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
- He he won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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