After The Fall, The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon

By Kasey S. Pipes [Regnery History, 2019, 290 pages]

My introduction to presidential politics began in 1960, at age 11, with the campaign between then-Senator John F. Kennedy and the incumbent vice president, Richard M. Nixon. After eight years of the sedate Eisenhower presidency, which Ike won in two successive landslides, the country was ready for a change, or as JFK emphasized, it was time to pass the torch to a new generation. The campaign between JFK and RMN got me hooked on politics with the charismatic Kennedy versus the intellectual, but socially awkward, Nixon.