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The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixonby Anthony Summers , Robbyn SwanISBN 0140260781 (0-14-026078-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon'Book summary:Anthony Summers is the past master of scandal, the man who brought you Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and that unforgettable (alleged) eyewitness account of J. Edgar Hoover in a flouncy black dress. Greater experts than I must rule on Summers's exhaustively researched portrait of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, but it sure is one racy read. Summers depicts a Nixon stoned out of his mind on Seconal, single-malt Scotch, Dilantin, speed, and clinical paranoia, pummeling his wife, Pat (who was rumored to have once been rescued by the Secret Service from drunkenly drowning in a bathtub). Summers's Nixon apparently took Mickey Cohen Mob money to fund his anti-Semitic, salacious smear campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to get his Senate start; framed Alger Hiss with a fake typewriter; traded gold for POWs with Vietcong; and issued orders to bomb Damascus and Jordan and nuke Vietnam and Korea (orders that were ignored until Nixon sobered up in the morning). His favorite limo was the SS100X that JFK died in. Nixon's shrink reportedly also treated Rita Hayworth, spoke like Dr. Strangelove, and used "Pavlovian technique" to "brainwash Nixon into becoming a better person." No luck.
Summers's Nixon favored the Greek generals who tortured pro-democracy types, and took a bribe from Göring's pal Nicolae Malaxa, who, thanks to Nixon, traded his Romanian mansion (in which thousands of Jews were tortured and killed) for a posh Manhattan apartment. Summers's most fascinating stuff concerns the Howard Hughes/Castro/Watergate connection. Did Nixon order CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? Did Robert Maheu (said to have inspired Mission: Impossible) arrange "sex services" and "assassination planning" for the CIA, and spy on Jean Peters and Ava Gardner for Howard Hughes? Did Hughes give big money to Nixon under the guise of saving the fast-food "Nixonburger" franchise of Richard's brother Donald Nixon (whom Richard had the FBI spy on)? Did the Castro plot get JFK killed, as Haldeman suspected? Was the Watergate break-in (one of perhaps 100 Nixon break-ins) intended to seize information about Nixon's Hughes loans and Castro plots?
Summers tries to assess his massive data while he's presenting it, and he doesn't credit every wild tale equally. Still, without him, I would never have heard about Castro's alleged ex-girlfriend, "the Mata Hari of the Caribbean," hired by future Watergate burglars to re-seduce Castro and slip two poison pills in his coffee. But she hid the pills in her cold-cream jar, and when she took them out in their Havana Hilton bathroom, they'd melted. Besides, her close encounter with the leader left her "torn by feelings of love." The Arrogance of Power won't give you this feeling. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- The Arrogance of Power : The Secret World of Richard Nixon: ISBN 0575062436 (0-575-06243-6)
Hardcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor - The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon: ISBN 0670871516 (0-670-87151-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon: ISBN 0140260781 (0-14-026078-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Arrogance of Power : The Secret World of Richard Nixon: ISBN 0575062436 (0-575-06243-6)
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Conspiracyby Anthony SummersISBN 0006354262 (0-00-635426-2)
Softcover, Fontana
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The File on the Tsarby Anthony Summers , Tom MangoldISBN 0006338267 (0-00-633826-7)
Softcover, Fontana
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Goddessby Anthony SummersISBN 0026154609 (0-02-615460-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroeby Anthony SummersISBN 0451400143 (0-451-40014-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Honeytrapby Anthony Summers , Stephen DorrilISBN 0340429739 (0-340-42973-9)
Hardcover, Coronet Books
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Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Wardby Anthony Summers , Stephen DorrilISBN 0297791222 (0-297-79122-2)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Horses of the Windby Anthony SummersISBN 0216896290 (0-216-89629-0)
Hardcover, Blackie Academic & Professional
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Niko and the Hero's Swordby Anthony SummersISBN 0234779365 (0-234-77936-5)
Hardcover, Dobson Books Limited
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Official and Confidentialby Anthony SummersISBN 0399138005 (0-399-13800-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Official and Confidential'Book summary:Presidents yearned to fire him, but were daunted by his storehouse of damaging secrets. Public officials and private citizens lived in fear of his illegal surveillance and harassment tactics. Now, in this ground-breaking, at times shocking biography, J. Edgar Hoover, the man who ruled over the FBI for nearly fifty years, emerges definitively as one of the greatest menaces of our times.
Official and Confidential, by the award-winning investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers, is the first book to expose the public and the private J. Edgar Hoover. Other biographers have hinted at the dark secrets in the Director's life, but Summers courageously discloses the truth. After conducting more than eight hundred interviews and obtaining access to previously concealed documents, Summers has created a chilling portrait of a legendary figure who blatantly abused the public trust.
* J. Edgar Hoover, Summers establishes, was a closet homosexual and transvestite. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America.
* J. Edgar Hoover shamelessly accepted gifts and free lodging from millionaire oilmen, and appropriated FBI facilities for his personal use.
* J. Edgar Hoover influenced the course of World War II by ignoring an early warning about Pearl Harbor.
* J. Edgar Hoover used his knowledge of John F. Kennedy's womanizing to ensure that Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He relied on dirty tricks to stay in office under Kennedy and subverted the Warren Commission's probe into the investigation of his death.
* J. Edgar Hoover himself was the target of a Watergate-era burglary attempt - and perhaps even a murder plot.
With these and other astonishing disclosures, Summers defines a man and his times. He explores Hoover's troubled youth as the son of a mentally ill father and a highly demanding mother, and the development of the obsessive behavior that dominated his later years. Summers takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, as a zealous young lawyer rebuilds an ineffectual corps of agents into a massive force capable of police-state tactics. With riveting detail, Summers documents Hoover's behind-the-scenes role in war and peace through fifty years and eight presidential administrations.
Richly anecdotal, meticulously researched Official and Confidential depicts some of the most controversial and colorful events of our century. Here is a disturbing lesson in how one man was able to abuse his position of power and change the course of American history. [via]
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Official and Confidential:The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover : Secret Life of J. Edgar Hooverby Anthony SummersISBN 0575042362 (0-575-04236-2)
Hardcover, Orion Books Limited
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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hooverby Anthony SummersISBN 0552142042 (0-552-14204-2)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Sinatra: The Lifeby Anthony Summers , Robbyn SwanISBN 0375713700 (0-375-71370-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sinatra: The Life'Book summary:The first and last definitive, fully-documented, massively researched birth-to-death biography of Frank Sinatra by the bestselling author of File on the Tsar and Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Frank Sinatra said that, as a child, he heard 'symphonies from the universe' in his head. At twenty-five, he told a friend he planned to become 'the best singer in the world'. Soon teenagers worldwide were behaving as though he were just that. He was 'the Big Bang of popular music', as U2's Bono has put it, and he remained a towering figure for more than fifty astonishing years. 'The day Frank Sinatra dies,' an aficionado declared in the early nineties, 'the 20th Century is over.' It ended in 1998 by that reckoning, and six years after his death here is the landmark life story the legend deserves. Sinatra was much more than his music. He was a political maverick, lover of a multitude of women, prone to violence and - most controversially - linked to the Mafia. Renowned biographer Anthony Summers and co-author Robbyn Swan have worked for four years to track down the truth and unravel the mysteries. They deliver stark new facts on Sinatra's tangled relationships with U.S. presidents, interview the women in his life, and get to the heartbreaking core of the tempestuous marriage to Ava Gardner. In a sensational breakthrough, they uncover the origins of the Mafia connection, and trace the course of a life lived dangerously. SINATRA penetrates the private world the singer famously kept closed. It is packed with shocking revelations yet always remains compassionate and fair. This is the definitive book on a complex, flawed genius, from masters of the craft of biography. [via]
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- Sinatra : The Life: ISBN 0385609248 (0-385-60924-8)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Sinatra: The Life: ISBN 0375414002 (0-375-41400-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Sinatra: The Life: ISBN 0375435492 (0-375-43549-2)
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- Sinatra : The Life: ISBN 0385609248 (0-385-60924-8)
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