Crooked
by Austin Grossman (2015)
Richard Milhous Nixon tells his story in first person.
The thirty-seventh president’s political career spanned the fifties, the Mad Men sixties, and the turbulent seventies. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and ultimately his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: how could he have lost it all?
According to his story, there were supernatural forces at play. And he just made a few schoolboy errors.
At times insightful, quirky and funny. But mainly confusing as the story reaches the Watergate scandal and his departure from politics.