**The memoirs of Richard Nixon**: This is the autobiography of Richard Nixon, the thirty-seventh presidente of the United States. Before him only six men who held the office wrote comprehensive memoirs. Now, here is Richard Nixon's self-portrait: a major work of autobiography, an extraordinary historical document, an intensely personal memoir. Richard Nixon begins his story with his earliest recollections of a rural California boyhood and continues through the moment he and his family left the White House for the last time. Within that journey, we see the struggle of a man to implement what he believed. Richard Nixon's is the story of a life of conflict and contrasts, of supreme happiness and anguished sorrow. It is the story of a political man, a man who lives and fights in the arena of American politics, winning great victories and suffering shattering defeats. Above all, it is the story of a man who chose to lead his life in public, but who remained a prinvate person. Even his closest associates have contended that they never came to know the real Nixon.
