One of the Best Books Ever Written About Richard Nixon

As Richard Nixon turns 100, Zócalo asks if the only native Californian who made it to the Oval Office just might deserve another look. “Is It Time to Rethink Nixon?” features Jeffrey Frank, author of the new book Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage–with Tim Naftali, recent director of the Nixon Presidential Library–at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 12.

The New Yorker just called Ike and Dick “one of the best books ever written about Richard Nixon.”

But without the Los Angeles Times, we might not even have a Nixon …

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Barack Obama, Troy Aikman, and the Costs of Football

Today at Zócalo, as the Super Bowl approaches, Kevin Cook, author of The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless ’70s, asks if we–the fans–should feel guilty about watching football …