The Book of the Week is “One of Us” by Tom Wicker. This is a biography of Richard Nixon, published in 1991.
This book discusses aspects of the late president’s psychology as well as his life story and historical events. Nixon had an inferiority complex. He always felt like an outsider in Washington because he was a Duke University, rather than an Ivy League, graduate. He used an apt phrase to describe the focus one needs to succeed in a law career: a “lead butt” that can sit in a chair for hours, reading.
Despite his shameful crimes and resignation, he still took some actions that benefited the United States, the most well known of which was “opening up” China.