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Crooked by Austin Grossman is a fictionalised autobiography of Richard Nixon. I should say EXTREMELY fictionalised – there is far more eldritch Lovecraftian horror here than in most political biographies. This Nixon is introduced to the fight against ancient cosmic malevolence and the magickal properties of the POTUS's seal by Eisenhower, and allies with the thousand year old Bavarian sorcerer Henry Kissinger to combat the Soviet weaponisation of occult horrors from another reality. Terrific fun, and more enjoyable than Charles Stross' similarly themed Laundry novels, but doesn't quite stick the landing.