Daniel Frick is director of the Writing Center and senior teaching professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College.

Senator Bob Dole argued that the last half of the twentieth century was ‘the age of Nixon’ and Dan Frick shows us why. The Nixon limned here is a mutable public figure constantly reinterpreted by his enemies and his admirers. They all find him an irresistible figure for thinking about who we are, who we want to be, and what we’re willing to do to get there. It is a brilliant and scary read." - David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s"A remarkable book that vividly reminds us of how important Nixon was and is to our own sense of ourselves as a political culture." - Bruce Kuklick, author of Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Richard Nixon and the Many Faces of a Representative America1. “Ragged Dick” Nixon, American Missionary2. Jeremiah at San Clemente: Richard Nixon and the Decline of the American Republic3. “Anyone Can Be the President”: Behind the Mask of Success4. The Self-Made Monster: America and the Myth of National Mission5. Richard Mephisto Nixon: Further Adventures in American Political Demonology6. “Never Give Up”: American Orthodoxy, Revised Standard Version7. Nixon, Now More than EverNotesBibliographyIndex

Daniel Frick is director of the Writing Center and senior teaching professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College.

Senator Bob Dole argued that the last half of the twentieth century was ‘the age of Nixon’ and Dan Frick shows us why. The Nixon limned here is a mutable public figure constantly reinterpreted by his enemies and his admirers. They all find him an irresistible figure for thinking about who we are, who we want to be, and what we’re willing to do to get there. It is a brilliant and scary read." - David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s"A remarkable book that vividly reminds us of how important Nixon was and is to our own sense of ourselves as a political culture." - Bruce Kuklick, author of Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Richard Nixon and the Many Faces of a Representative America1. “Ragged Dick” Nixon, American Missionary2. Jeremiah at San Clemente: Richard Nixon and the Decline of the American Republic3. “Anyone Can Be the President”: Behind the Mask of Success4. The Self-Made Monster: America and the Myth of National Mission5. Richard Mephisto Nixon: Further Adventures in American Political Demonology6. “Never Give Up”: American Orthodoxy, Revised Standard Version7. Nixon, Now More than EverNotesBibliographyIndex

Daniel Frick is director of the Writing Center and senior teaching professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College.

Senator Bob Dole argued that the last half of the twentieth century was ‘the age of Nixon’ and Dan Frick shows us why. The Nixon limned here is a mutable public figure constantly reinterpreted by his enemies and his admirers. They all find him an irresistible figure for thinking about who we are, who we want to be, and what we’re willing to do to get there. It is a brilliant and scary read." - David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s"A remarkable book that vividly reminds us of how important Nixon was and is to our own sense of ourselves as a political culture." - Bruce Kuklick, author of Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Richard Nixon and the Many Faces of a Representative America1. “Ragged Dick” Nixon, American Missionary2. Jeremiah at San Clemente: Richard Nixon and the Decline of the American Republic3. “Anyone Can Be the President”: Behind the Mask of Success4. The Self-Made Monster: America and the Myth of National Mission5. Richard Mephisto Nixon: Further Adventures in American Political Demonology6. “Never Give Up”: American Orthodoxy, Revised Standard Version7. Nixon, Now More than EverNotesBibliographyIndex