The Book Prize Index

Richard Nixon: The Life

John A. Farrell

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -> BiographyPresidential BiographyMemoir & Personal History

Award History

2 wins · 6 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History2018WinnerSecondary source
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography2018WinnerSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in Biography or AutobiographyMajor2018FinalistSecondary source
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor2018LonglistOfficial source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyMajor2017FinalistSecondary source
Plutarch Award: Biography2018FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Richard Nixon98%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.