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The Nixon Effect - How Richard Nixon’s Presidency Fundamentally Changed American Politics (Hardcover)
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The Nixon Effect - How Richard Nixon’s Presidency Fundamentally Changed American Politics (Hardcover)
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The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president's political legacy in
broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth
and duration of his influence on American political life. The book
argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American
politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. His
legacy includes a generational shift in the ideological
orientations of both the Republican and Democratic parties; the
Nixon influence, both intentional and unintentional, was to push
both parties further out to their ideological poles. So stark was
Nixon's influence on party identities that it shaped the hardened
partisan polarization in Washington today and the evolution of what
has come to be called Red and Blue America. Stemming in part from
this, and also from Nixon's scorched-earth political warfare and
eventually his Watergate scandal, we have also seen the evolution
of politics as war, where adversaries and ideological opponents are
seen as evil or unpatriotic. Finally, Nixon's pioneering
tactics--from the identification of the Silent Majority to the
Southern Strategy, from "triangulating" between both parties and
claiming the political center to launching the culture war with
attacks on "elites" in media, academia, and the courts--have shaped
political communications and strategy ever since. Other books have
argued for Nixon's importance, but Douglas E. Schoen's is the first
to take into account the full range of this fascinating man's
influence. While not discounting Nixon's many misdeeds, Schoen
treats his presidency and its importance with the seriousness--and
evenhandedness--that the subject deserves.
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