Author: Gish Jen
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0593319907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that Cynthia Ozick has called “an art beyond art. It is life itself.” Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to “poor Mr. Nixon” in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans “like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes”; Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their “number-one daughter” in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on “no politics, just make money,” finds she must reassess her mother’s philosophy. With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these eleven linked stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history, capturing an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, Thank You, Mr. Nixon furnishes yet more proof of Gish Jen’s eminent place among American storytellers.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Congratulatory letter from United States President Richard Nixon to Midwestern University President Dr. Travis White on the university’s 50th anniversary. The letter is dated October 5, 1972, and includes The White House letterhead.
Author: Robert Henry Winborne Welch
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Reeves
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-10-10
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 0743227190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →PRESIDENT NIXON shows a man alone in a White House ruled by secrets and lies, trying to impose old values at home and new balances of power everywhere in the world. Reeves proves that the Watergate scandal was no abberation in an administration foreshadowed by a series of successful uses of 'national security' to cover coups, burglaries, lies, the abandonment of America's allies - and even murder. Reeves portrays a man of vision and iron will who created, used and was used by a small cast of hard, ambitious men who formed a poisonous circle around their insecure leader. Alone, Nixon challenged and changed the world's political and military balance while also plotting to destroy both the Democratic and Republican parties in an attempt to create secretly a new party of the centre. This account of Nixon's stewardship will stand as the balanced, authoratative portrait of an astonishng president and his ruined presidency.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 2
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thanking for her support during his campaign for governor.