Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes

by Allen J. Matusow

Book Overview

Though Richard Nixon came to office preoccupied with foreign policy, he soon had to grapple with an economy that threatened him with political defeat. Following the advice of Milton Friedman, the president placed his initial hopes for good times in the economics of caution. But when the economy dipped into recession and cost the Republicans victory in the Congressional election of 1970, Nixon turned for rescue not to his economists, but to a politician,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608885
• ISBN13: 9780700608881
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"