A BOOK BY VICTOR LI
Nixon in New York
How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House
After losing the California governor’s race in 1962, Richard Nixon went to Wall Street to practice law. Six years later, his firm helped him launch one of the most successful political comebacks ever.
Bloomsbury Publishing/Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018
ABOUT THE BOOK
The road back ran through a law office.
When Richard Nixon lost the California governor’s race in 1962, a partnership at a Manhattan law firm looked like a retreat from politics. The work he did there helps explain how he got back in.
At Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, he met clients who would finance his next campaign. Their business took him overseas, where he could keep up his foreign policy contacts. And when he needed researchers, writers, and advisers for the 1968 race, he could turn to lawyers he already knew across the conference table.
"An engaging and well-written book that illuminates Nixon through the exploration of the midpoint of his career."
PRAISE FOR NIXON IN NEW YORK
The "New Nixon" started in New York
Well-researched and illuminating.
Well-researched and illuminating.
Thomas Byrne Edsall, The New York Times
[I]t deserves consideration in competition with John Farrell's or Evan Thomas's recent, massive Nixon biographies.
Choice
[I]t deserves consideration in competition with John Farrell's or Evan Thomas's recent, massive Nixon biographies.
Choice
[P]ainstakingly researched and well-crafted.
Massachusetts Law Review
[P]ainstakingly researched and well-crafted.
Massachusetts Law Review
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Victor Li
Victor Li is an award-winning author and journalist, an assistant managing editor at the ABA Journal, and host of the Legal Rebels Podcast. He is also the author of Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process.