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Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
by Mark Feeney.
Chicago, 422 pp., £19.50, November 2004,0 226 23968 3 Show More
by Mark Feeney.
Chicago, 422 pp., £19.50, November 2004,
“... fitting.’ A ready-made Pop Art collage, it consecrated absolute celebrity, the President and the King. The presidency, Norman Mailer observed during Nixon’s 1972 bid for re-election, is ‘a primitive office and inspires the tribes of America to pick up the modes and manners of their chief’. Two genres that thrived under the Nixon presidency were the ... ”