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Book Nook: Being Nixon - A Man Divided, by Evan Thomas

My enduring fascination with President Richard M. Nixon continues. Evan Thomas has written a very sympathetic biography of Nixon. Thomas shows us some aspects of the man that have been mostly forgotten since his presidency collapsed amid scandal. At the end of the book (and the end of this interview) the author describes his one personal and rather telling encounter with Richard Milhous Nixon. It was a classic moment spent with this mysterious and deeply misunderstood politician.

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Vick Mickunas is the host of Book Nook on WYSO, which he created in 1994. He has conducted more than 1,700 author interviews, from Studs Terkel to Lee Child to John Glenn. He is a book critic for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News-Sun.