A. J. P. Taylor, 'The Sad Case of Mr. Clean', The Sunday Express (October 23, 1977), p. 16
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He accepted the realities of the world and would have gone down as a great President if it had not been for the trivial scandal of the Watergate.
— A. J. P. Taylor on Richard Nixon
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About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
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