"It was Nixon's war on history that made scholars leery of affording any legitimacy to his library. But while the process of revision never ceases, it now seems safe to say that—like the once-contentious debates about the morality of slavery, the futility of Prohibition or the greatness of FDR—that war is over. Nixon lost."
As the National Archives takes control of the Richard Nixon Library, David Greenberg in the Los Angeles Times contemplates the changes.
Also in the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Goffard profiles the library's new director, Timothy Naftali.
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Michael Nelson rounds up this year's batch of books on the former president.
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