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Through the bestselling writer of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous malfunction in the tumultuous politics and financial times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon released the end of the Vietnam War and well prepared for a triumphant second term - until televised Watergate hearings exposed his White House only a small amount better than a mafia den. The next president declared after Nixon's resignation "our long nationwide nightmare has ended" - but congressional investigators subjected the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South Vietnamese administration rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives. The overall economy was at tatters. And since Americans began thinking about their land in a new way - as you more land among nations, forget about providential than any other - the pundits announced that to any extent further successful politicians is the ones who honored this chastened new nationwide mood. Ronald Reagan never got the message. That was why, when he released his motive to challenge Chief executive Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination, those same pundits dismissed him - until, surprisingly, it began to look like he might just earn. He was inventing the new traditional political culture we realize now, in which a vision of patriotism rooted in a sense of American limitations was derailed in America's Bicentennial year by the climb of the smiling politician from Hollywood. Against a backdrop of melodramas from the Arab engine oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of America's best city, The Invisible Bridge asks the question: exactly what does it mean to believe in the us? To wave a flag - or even to reject the glibness of the flag wavers?
