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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.

Vick Mickunas introduced the Book Nook author interview program for WYSO in 1994. Over the years he has produced more than 1500 interviews with writers, musicians, poets, politicians, and celebrities. Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them. Vick Mickunas reviews books for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News Sun.