Title: This is a Rant, Not a Biography
Product review: What Nixon did over the years was utterly unforgiveable, but this relentless diatribe--at times, tantrum--does little to give us an accurate picture of what went on. Summers paints Nixon as somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and Jeffrey Dahmer, spending his entire presidency picking wings off flies. They call this kind of writing "one dimensional" and it may be fun reading, but it hardly contributes to an understanding of the whole man. It actually became silly to read, it was so biased.Most laughable was when he repeatedly painted Nixon's most enthusiastic hatchetmen, Haldeman and Ehrlichmen, as altar boys speaking during the Nixon years with such reason and later, of course, such balanced hindsight.It's a shame. Obviously, Summers did tremendous research for this book and he had the resources, therefore, to produce a credible, balanced work instead of just a blatant bloodletting.But it does sell.
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