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Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

by Paul Carter
Tricia Nixon Cox
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2023 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Biography
2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Winner
2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book Award Winner
2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List
2024 Best Book Award Winner in Biography, sponsored by American Book Fest
Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California's native son, the only U.S. president born and raised in California. In addition, Nixon was also a son, brother, friend, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather. By shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon's deep, defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common conceptions of the thirty-seventh president of the United States.
More biographies have been written on Nixon than any other U.S. politician. Yet the territory traversed by Carter is unexplored, revealing for the first time the people, places, and experiences that shaped Richard Nixon and the qualities that garnered him respect from those who knew him well.
Born in Yorba Linda and raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life, excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high school. At Whittier College he graduated at the top of his class and was voted Best Man on Campus. During his career at Whittier's oldest law firm, he was respected professionally and became a chief trial attorney. As a military man in the South Pacific during World War II, he was admired by his fellow servicemen. Returning to his Quaker roots after the war, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and the vice presidency, all within six short years. After losing to John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential campaign, Nixon returned to Southern California to practice law. After losing his gubernatorial race he reinvented himself: he moved to New York and was elected president of the United States in 1968. He returned to Southern California after Watergate and his resignation to heal before once again taking a place on the world stage.
Richard Nixon: California's Native Son is the story of Nixon's Southern California journey from his birth in Yorba Linda to his final resting place just a few yards from the home in which he was born.

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    September 1, 2023

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      Starred review from September 1, 2023

      With Richard Nixon being an unending subject of study, attorney Carter (creator of the map Native Son: Richard Nixon's Southern California) concentrates on the relatively little-analyzed pre-political and extra-political influences on this only California-born U.S. president. Excelling in academics and aspiring to do the same in athletics, Nixon earned early respect as the second of five boys in an often economically challenged Quaker family, becoming a World War II naval officer, then a lawyer. Based on largely untapped primary sources--reminiscences of teachers, mentors, and colleagues who knew Nixon well--the book shows how California formed Nixon and how he in turn influenced the state. With extant sources in repositories at Cal-State Fullerton, Whittier College, UC-Berkley, UCLA, and NARA, Carter conducts more than 60 interviews and draws upon selected parts of Nixon's presidential daily diary, which is more than 10,000 pages; there is also a foreword to the book by Tricia Nixon Cox, a daughter of the president. Buttressing the conclusions of authors such as Irv Gellman, Conrad Black, John Farrell, and Evan Thomas, Carter underlines the decided differences between Nixon's public perception and private person. VERDICT A favorable, felicitously fashioned retrospective that helps readers see that Nixon led a substantial and transformative life. This book offers a key to comprehending the relational, emotional, and social contexts that led to his political and psychological formation.--Frederick J. Augustyn Jr.

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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