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The Astonishing Comeback of Richard Nixon

Only a decade after fleeing the White House in disgrace, Richard Nixon became a trusted advisor to presidents, dispensing wisdom on campaign strategy and foreign policy, shaping the course of U.S.-Soviet summit meetings, and representing the United States at state funerals—the very model of an elder statesman.

 

How did he do it? Nixon leveraged his still sharp mind, his peerless political instincts, his deep connections with foreign leaders—but, above all, his stubborn refusal to accept defeat—to achieve a political restoration as astonishing as the fall that preceded it.
Kasey S. Pipes, advisor to President George W. Bush, tells the fascinating story of Nixon’s comeback. From his unprecedented access to the private post-presidential documents at the Nixon Library and groundbreaking interviews of aides and family members, Pipes reveals inside information that has never been reported about Nixon’s successful campaign to repair his reputation and resuscitate his career:

  1. The true story behind the supposed medical “hoax” to get Nixon out of testifying at the Watergate trials of his aides in Washington
  2. The strategy behind Nixon’s apparently accidental on-air “confession” on the Watergate coverup to interviewer David Frost
  3. How Nixon’s advice on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) shaped Ronald Reagan’s negotiations with Gorbachev—and changed history
  4. How, after the Tiananmen Square violence, Nixon traveled to China to help prevent an international incident and helped to preserve the U.S.-Chinese relations that he opened up years earlier
  5. The Saturday morning presidential radio address: a Nixon idea
  6. Nixon’s surprising friendship with Bill Clinton

After the Fall is the gripping and never-before-told story of the most remarkable reversal of fortune in American political history.

KASEY S. PIPES served as an advisor to President George W. Bush and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is co-founder of the issues management firm Corley Pipes, partner at the public affairs firm High Water Strategies, and the Norris Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College.  His writings have appeared in USA Today and Politico, and he is the author of Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality.

"In a fast-moving, richly researched volume that breaks new ground, Kasey S. Pipes describes that most improbable of political journeys, the post-presidential return of Richard Nixon, this time to the private role of advising Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton on foreign policy. Drawing on private Nixon family records, letters and memos, Pipes shows the former president was far more active in helping shape America’s grand global strategy – and more successful – than previously realized, even as he suffered political exile. The story is a must for anyone wanting to understand Nixon’s life after Watergate."

Karl C. Rove

Author of "The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters

2019-06-06T12:13:41+00:00

Karl C. Rove

Author of "The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters

"In a fast-moving, richly researched volume that breaks new ground, Kasey S. Pipes describes that most improbable of political journeys, the post-presidential return of Richard Nixon, this time to the private role of advising Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton on foreign policy. Drawing on private Nixon family records, letters and memos, Pipes shows the former president was far more active in helping shape America’s grand global strategy – and more successful – than previously realized, even as he suffered political exile. The story is a must for anyone wanting to understand Nixon’s life after Watergate."
"Three-and-a-half years after departing the White House in disgrace, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Richard Nixon contemplated the future. “I had to decide,” he wrote, “what to do with the rest of my life.” The road less traveled in Nixon scholarship is the twenty year span following his presidency. In After the Fall, Kasey Pipes fills in the missing parts of this journey. Its apt subtitle is “The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon.” Nixon’s regeneration was remarkable. So is this book."

Carl Cannon

Washington Bureau Chief, RealClearPolitics

2019-06-06T12:20:45+00:00

Carl Cannon

Washington Bureau Chief, RealClearPolitics

"Three-and-a-half years after departing the White House in disgrace, on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Richard Nixon contemplated the future. “I had to decide,” he wrote, “what to do with the rest of my life.” The road less traveled in Nixon scholarship is the twenty year span following his presidency. In After the Fall, Kasey Pipes fills in the missing parts of this journey. Its apt subtitle is “The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon.” Nixon’s regeneration was remarkable. So is this book."
"Based on his exclusive access to Nixon’s post-presidential papers, Kasey Pipes has written a fascinating account of Richard M. Nixon’s last and greatest personal crisis: rebuilding his credibility after Watergate. Pipes has mastered and carefully weighed the facts and he tells the story well."

Bruce Buchanan

Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin

2019-06-06T12:22:09+00:00

Bruce Buchanan

Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin

"Based on his exclusive access to Nixon’s post-presidential papers, Kasey Pipes has written a fascinating account of Richard M. Nixon’s last and greatest personal crisis: rebuilding his credibility after Watergate. Pipes has mastered and carefully weighed the facts and he tells the story well."
"Kasey S. Pipes’ 'After the Fall' is a book worth reading; it is also a book worth thinking about in deeply reflective ways. At one level it is an insightful chronicle of Richard Nixon’s return to grace as he deftly uses his foreign policy expertise as the vehicle to establish new relationships with policy makers, politicians, and the public. Pipes’ depiction of the eulogies for Nixon by Senator Dole and President Clinton reads as a evocative exclamation point for this ground breaking story of Nixon’s successful twenty year return journey. Yet at another, more reflective, level it is a study in the power of resilience ,determination and character in shaping a life. Nixon’s to be sure, but more broadly perhaps, our own as well."

Larry Taylor

US Ambassador to Estonia, 1995-1997

2019-06-06T12:19:16+00:00

Larry Taylor

US Ambassador to Estonia, 1995-1997

"Kasey S. Pipes’ 'After the Fall' is a book worth reading; it is also a book worth thinking about in deeply reflective ways. At one level it is an insightful chronicle of Richard Nixon’s return to grace as he deftly uses his foreign policy expertise as the vehicle to establish new relationships with policy makers, politicians, and the public. Pipes’ depiction of the eulogies for Nixon by Senator Dole and President Clinton reads as a evocative exclamation point for this ground breaking story of Nixon’s successful twenty year return journey. Yet at another, more reflective, level it is a study in the power of resilience ,determination and character in shaping a life. Nixon’s to be sure, but more broadly perhaps, our own as well."

The Author

Kasey S. Pipes | Author: Ike’s Final Battle

Kasey S. Pipes is a biographer and historian. His first book, “Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality” was released in February 2007 by World Ahead Publishing and became an Amazon.com national bestseller.The Wall Street Journal praised the book as a “highly readable and credible account of Eisenhower’s struggle with race and civil rights” and George F. Will called it a “mind-opening book.” Kasey’s political writings have appeared in Politico, Realclearpolitics.com, Townhall Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, World Magazine and Foxnews.com. He is now a special contributor to The Dallas Morning News where he regularly writes book reviews. And he also has appeared on C-SPAN, Bloomberg Television and Fox News.