Have you read any of the books authored by Richard Nixon?

I haven't read any of his writings. I have read some books about him though, I have "The Arrogance of Power: Inside the Secret World of Richard Nixon" by Anthony Summers, which is an anti-Nixon hate book basically, "Very Strange Bedfellows:The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew" by Jules Witcover, and "Nixon and Rockefeller" by Stewart Alsop. I think he was a pretty bad president though. He nominated 2 unqualified people to the Supreme Court, he imposed wage and price controls which damaged our economy, he appeased the USSR and started detente and nuclear arms control deals that hurt the USA, and he prolonged the Vietnam war without doing anything to try to win it. He also did little to help the Jews who were persecuted by the Soviet government when people in the Senate such as Javits were trying to get him to stop detente and the free trade agreements and help the Soviet Jews. I don't think he was a very good president, although there have been plenty who were worse.