{"id":52490,"date":"2016-09-21T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52490"},"modified":"2016-09-21T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:04:03","slug":"new-issue-central-standard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52490","title":{"rendered":"New Issue: Central Standard Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[by <strong>Mark Safranski<\/strong>\u00a0\/ &#8220;<strong>zen<\/strong>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"site-logo attachment-colinear-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/centralstandardtimeblog.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cst-logo-1-copy.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"CST Logo 1 copy\" width=\"628\" height=\"127\" data-size=\"colinear-logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new issue of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzmasters.moonfruit.com\/\"><strong>Joe Tortorici<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s Chicago-oriented culture e-zine, <a href=\"https:\/\/centralstandardtimeblog.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Central Standard Time<\/strong><\/a> is out.<\/p>\n<p>I have reached into the archives again for my contribution, <a href=\"https:\/\/centralstandardtimeblog.wordpress.com\/mark-safranski\/the-last-of-the-presidents-men\/\">a book review of <strong>The Last of the President&#8217;s Men <\/strong><\/a>by<strong> Bob Woodward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8230;.What shines through in the story is how truly weird and brittle Nixon had become in dealing with other human beings by the time he had reached the presidency. It is very difficult to\u00a0reconcile the Richard Nixon of\u00a0The Last of the President\u2019s Men\u00a0who had paralyzing anxiety attacks over working with \u2013 or even meeting-\u00a0new staff with the Nixon who wrangled with lawyers, FBI agents and fellow Congressmen in investigating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alger_Hiss\">Alger Hiss,<\/a>\u00a0who forcefully\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?110721-1\/nixonkhrushchev-kitchen-debate\">debated<\/a>\u00a0Nikita Khrushchev\u00a0or who remained steady when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/vice-president-nixon-is-attacked\">his limousine was attacked by a Communist mob in Venezuela<\/a>. Perhaps Nixon grew worse with age or perhaps as president,\u00a0Nixon finally had the means to keep unwanted people \u2013 and that would be nearly everyone \u2013 at bay. The portrait painted by Woodward of Richard Nixon is of a desperately lonely, misanthropic figure, inept at and pained by normal social relations to\u00a0such an\u00a0extent that he kept even his wife and children at a strange remove.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/centralstandardtimeblog.wordpress.com\/mark-safranski\/the-last-of-the-presidents-men\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[by Mark Safranski\u00a0\/ &#8220;zen&#8220;] The new issue of\u00a0Joe Tortorici&#8216;s Chicago-oriented culture e-zine, Central Standard Time is out. I have reached into the archives again for my contribution, a book review of The Last of the President&#8217;s Men by Bob Woodward: &#8230;.What shines through in the story is how truly weird and brittle Nixon had become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-standard-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52491,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions\/52491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}