Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-1972
NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater seemed to have heralded a permanent liberal consensus. The next year scores of liberals were thrown...
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NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater seemed to have heralded a permanent liberal consensus. The next year scores of liberals were thrown out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Six years later, President Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and resentment borne of that blood and fire, was re-elected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's, and the outlines of today's US politics of red-and-blue division became distinct.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780743243025 (0743243021)
Publish date: 2008-05-13
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 881
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
American,
Culture,
Politics,
American History,
Presidents,
Political Science,
Society,
Us Presidents
Whether 1972 or 2016, we're still in Nixonland Is Nixonland a time or a place? Back in 2008, Rick Perlstein stated that between 1965 and 1972 when Richard Nixon rose to not only the Presidency but achieving the third-largest percentage in election history that Nixonland was brought forth and has ...
I tried, seriously, but this is one long-ass book about Nixon. I couldn't get interested or motivated, so I didn't finish. Maybe I will try again later!
I have long maintained that the most influential president of the 20th century was not FDR or Reagan but Richard Nixon. While Roosevelt may have created more programs and Reagan changed the economic tone of the nation, Nixon changed how we voted and how our politicians campaigned. And that may have ...
This was a hard book for me to get through. I had to take breaks and read two other books while getting through this one. It was a bit slow going, and also depressing. Nixon was the first Republican president who was obsessed with power. Power was much much more important to him then doing the jo...
I'm halfway through this book, and Perlstein's punchy and sweeping account (zeroing in on specific incidents, rack-focusing back out to a big picture) is a pleasure to read, let alone chockfull (hey--what is a "chock"? what does it look like half-empty?) of insights, disturbingly acute analytical ...