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Nixonland
Rick Perlstein
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Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling 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 ... Read more
Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scribner
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780743243032
SKU
V9780743243032
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About Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which won the 2001 Los ... Read more
Reviews for Nixonland
"A richly detailed descent into the inferno
that is, the years when Richard Milhous Nixon, 'a serial collector of resentments,' ruled the land."
Kirkus Reviews "Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know
American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972
into an often surprising ... Read more
that is, the years when Richard Milhous Nixon, 'a serial collector of resentments,' ruled the land."
Kirkus Reviews "Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know
American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972
into an often surprising ... Read more