Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00BORMIRG
Publish date: May 13th 2008
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 896
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 ...
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