After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon

After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon

by Kasey S. Pipes
After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon

After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon

by Kasey S. Pipes

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A Main Selection of the History Book Club!

The Astonishing Comeback of Richard Nixon

On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only U.S. president to resign from office—to avoid almost certain impeachment. Utterly disgraced, he was forced to flee the White House with a small cadre of advisors and family. Richard Nixon was a completely defeated man.

Yet only a decade later, Nixon was 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 U.S. 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. Using unprecedented access to the private post-presidential documents at the Nixon Library, Pipes reveals inside information that has never been reported about Nixon’s successful campaign to repair his reputation and resuscitate his career, including:


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


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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621572848
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 07/23/2019
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 659,597
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii

A Note from the Author xvii

Chapter 1 The Beginning of the End 1

Chapter 2 In Exile 5

Chapter 3 The Pardon 13

Chapter 4 A Near-Death Experience 25

Chapter 5 The Memoirs 41

Chapter 6 Interviews and Apologies 63

Chapter 7 The First Steps Back 79

Chapter 8 The Move to New York 99

Chapter 9 The 1980 Election 109

Chapter 10 Advisor to the President 127

Chapter 11 A Home for the Nixon Library 141

Chapter 12 Navigating the Turbulence 149

Chapter 13 The Evil Empire 157

Chapter 14 The 1984 Election 165

Chapter 15 The Sage of Saddle River 177

Chapter 16 The Public Critic 189

Chapter 17 The 1988 Election and the Bush Administration 205

Chapter 18 The Last Mile 221

Chapter 19 The Greatest Honor 235

Afterword 253

Selected Bibliography 257

Acknowledgments 261

Notes 267

Index 281

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