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Advised with urgency and well-defined political understanding, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early on 1970s and uncovers how Richard Nixon increased from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.
Perlstein's epic profile starts in the bloodstream and hearth of the 1965 Watts riots, nine a few months after Lyndon Johnson's historical landslide triumph over Barry Goldwater seemed to herald a everlasting liberal consensus in the United States. Yet the next year, results of liberals were tossed away of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking return: Richard Nixon.
Between 1965 and 1972, America experienced a minimum of a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we realize 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. A couple of tantalizing glimpses of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious teenagers named Karl Rove and William Clinton -- and a not so ambitious son named George W. Bush.
Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland:
-Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods in locations over the land as white suburbanites protect home and hearth with shotguns
-The pupil insurgency on the Vietnam Conflict, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic Country wide Convention
-The fissuring of the Democratic Party into warring factions manipulated by the “dirty tricks” of Nixon and his Committee to Re-Elect the Leader
-Richard Nixon pledging a new dawn of countrywide unity, governing more divisively than any chief executive before him, then directing a offender conspiracy, the Watergate cover-up, from the Oval Office
Then, in November 1972, Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and resentment created of America's turmoil, was reelected in a landslide a great deal larger than Johnson's 1964 triumph, not only establishing the level for his dramatic 1974 resignation but determining the terms of the ideological separate that characterizes America today.
Filled with prodigious research and influenced by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein's magisterial profile of how America divided confirms his place as one of our country's most famous historians.
