Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952 is the story of a young man nearing a nervous breakdown and staging a political comeback. While the narrative focuses tightly, almost cinematically, on the 1952 election cycle—from the spring primary season to the summer conventions, then to the allegations against Nixon through to the speech in September, and finally the election in November—Mattson also provides a broad-stroke depiction of American politics and culture during the Cold War.
 
Published by Bloomsbury