Subject, Spectator, Phantom
J. Hoberman: The Strangest Personality Ever to Lead the Free World, 17 February 2005
Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
by Mark Feeney.
Chicago, 422 pp., £19.50, November 2004,0 226 23968 3 Show More
by Mark Feeney.
Chicago, 422 pp., £19.50, November 2004,
“... with skin as biliously green as the Wicked Witch of the West and, in a riotous series of drawings, Philip Guston transformed the president’s ski nose and heavy jowls into a glumly expressive set of male genitalia. Nixon’s personality was even richer. Gore Vidal parodied him in his 1960 play The Best Man and, beginning in the late 1960s, an impressive ... ”