The World and Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon - judged both as a brilliant statesman and a villain - will go down in history as one of America's most significant presidents. In The World and Richard Nixon C. L. Sulzberger examines the man who was and still is perceived by even his harshest critics as a man with great knowledge and talent in his successful handling of foreign policy.

Sulzberger interviews world leaders to reveal that Nixon was a remarkably far-sighted and adept statesman. In this thoroughly researched account he records and analyses Chou En-lai's enthusiastic appraisal of Nixon's foreign policy; former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's judgement that Nixon's diplomacy was better prepared than the diplomacy of other American Presidents with whom he dealt; France's Maurice Couve's thoughts on Nixon's perceptions of Vietnam and his diligence toward Franco-American relations.