Character Above All, Volume 5

Character Above All #5

by Tom Wicker, Robert A. Wilson

RICHARD NIXON Timeless history recorded live...Tom Wicker discusses the life and character of Richard Nixon

The bestselling author of One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream, novelist and veteran New York Times columnist Tom Wicker lends his unmistakable voice to the groundbreaking Character Above All audio series with an illuminating examination of one of America's most infamous Presidents.

Recorded live at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Wicker continues a series of lectures delivered by a team of historians, biographers and journalists assembled by Robert Wilson to explore the Presidential character. Sharing their insight into the Presidents they have written about, these authors and scholars address the larger issue of the impact of the Presidential character on leadership and the creation of trust.

Wicker explains that Nixon was an ambiguous character -- talented, suspicious, and a loner, an anomaly in a successful politician. In the end, he was neither evil nor a victim -- except of himself.

Character Above All is incomparable audio, crackling with the energy and excitement of a great mind at work and the intellectual urgency befitting a topic of lasting national importance.

Audio Cassette

First published July 1, 1996

About the author

Also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Connolly.

Thomas Grey Wicker’s respected talent as a journalist took him from his origins in Hamlet, North Carolina, to The New York Times. There he served as associate editor, former Washington bureau chief, as well as the author of the famous op-ed column “In the Nation” for thirty years. He was the author of a considerable number of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction books as well. Wicker earned his journalism degree from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 1948, and at first wrote for papers in Aberdeen and Lumberton. He wrote for the Winston-Salem Journal for eight years and The Nashville Tennessean for two years before heading up to the Times, where he eventually retired in 1991. Wicker’s famous report on the assassination of President Kennedy, written from the perspective of the motorcade following the president, has been praised as the most accurate firsthand account of the shooting.

Reviews

[Amy]

Listened to this audiobook too long ago to accurately rate it. I am going to read another Nixon book for more Nixon details. Not really sure why, but I am.