Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. David Greenberg. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. 460 pp. $26.95 hdbk.
Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective. Louis W. Liebovich. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 143 pp. $45.95 hdbk.
Three decades after his resignation as president, Richard Nixon continues to fascinate his old enemies in the news media. It is not just the periodic posthumous releases of Nixon's secret White House tapes, with dependably bigoted and paranoid comments, or even the occasional discovery of repressed memories from aged Watergate figures. It is also, as Yale Professor David Greenberg writes in his superb new cultural history, that …