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Nixonland - The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
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Nixonland - The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
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Told with urgency and sharp political insight, "Nixonland"
recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals
how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold
the presidency.
Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965
Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide
victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal
consensus in the United States. Yet the next year, scores of
liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than
ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking
comeback: Richard Nixon.
Between 1965 and 1972, America experienced no less than a second
civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was
born. It was the era not only of Nixon, Johnson, Spiro Agnew,
Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, Richard J. Daley, and George
Wallace but Abbie Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, Ted
Kennedy, Charles Manson, John Lindsay, and Jane Fonda. There are
tantalizing glimpses of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse
Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious young men named Karl
Rove and William Clinton -- and a not so ambitious young man named
George W. Bush.
Cataclysms tell the story of "Nixonland"
Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods in cities across the
land as white suburbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns The
student insurgency over the Vietnam War, the assassinations of
Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the riots at the 1968
Democratic National Convention The fissuring of the Democratic
Party into warring factions manipulated by the "dirty tricks" of
Nixon and his Committee to Re-Elect the President Richard Nixon
pledging a new dawn of national unity, governing more divisively
than any president before him, then directing a criminal
conspiracy, the Watergate cover-up, from the Oval Office
Then, in November 1972, Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and
resentment born of America's turmoil, was reelected in a landslide
even bigger than Johnson's 1964 victory, not only setting the stage
for his dramatic 1974 resignation but defining the terms of the
ideological divide that characterizes America today.
Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful
narrative, Rick Perlstein's magisterial account of how America
divided confirms his place as one of our country's most celebrated
historians.
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