Zócalo Public SquareJeffrey Frank – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Author and Journalist Jeffrey Frank https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/26/author-and-journalist-jeffrey-frank/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/26/author-and-journalist-jeffrey-frank/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:01:21 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=45475 Jeffrey Frank is the author, most recently, of Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage. Previously, he was an editor at The New Yorker and The Washington Post; he has also published four novels and, with his wife, translated from the Danish The Stories of Hans Christen Andersen. Before discussing whether we should rethink Richard Nixon, he proffered up to us his own hypothetical campaign slogan, his most beloved musical, and the Danish phrase he uses most often.

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]]> https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/26/author-and-journalist-jeffrey-frank/personalities/in-the-green-room/feed/ 0 You’ve Got Nixon All Wrong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/11/youve-got-nixon-all-wrong/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/11/youve-got-nixon-all-wrong/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:01:41 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=44849 If you care about Richard Nixon, you probably have an opinion about him. It may be an informed opinion or an uninformed opinion. Either way, it’s going to be an incomplete opinion. Every person—especially of the complex, history-making sort—has more facets of personality and character than any biographer, let alone the broader public, could possibly assess in full. But we can remind one another of what we’ve been missing. In that spirit, and in advance of the Zócalo event “Is It Time to Rethink Nixon?“, we asked some historians to illuminate something we’ve misunderstood or forgotten about our controversial 37th president, Richard Nixon. What have we been missing?

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]]> If you care about Richard Nixon, you probably have an opinion about him. It may be an informed opinion or an uninformed opinion. Either way, it’s going to be an incomplete opinion. Every person—especially of the complex, history-making sort—has more facets of personality and character than any biographer, let alone the broader public, could possibly assess in full. But we can remind one another of what we’ve been missing. In that spirit, and in advance of the Zócalo event “Is It Time to Rethink Nixon?“, we asked some historians to illuminate something we’ve misunderstood or forgotten about our controversial 37th president, Richard Nixon. What have we been missing?

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