Nixon is a well-documented and almost insanely thoroughly biographized president. Beyond the aforementioned texts by Richard Reeves and Stephen Ambrose, four others in particular stand above the rest: Tom Wicker’s One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream, Tim Weiner’s One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, Evan Thomas’s Being Nixon: A Man Divided, and John Aloysius Farrell’s magisterial Richard Nixon: The Life. They are simply the best of a crowded class.
