Publisher Description
Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.Â
Perlstein’s epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson’s historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. But the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon.Â
Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein’s magisterial account of how it all happened confirms his place as one of our country’s most celebrated historians.
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“Nixonland was both a well-written and meticulously researched history of the tumultuous 1960’s and the birth of movement conservatism, which has gone on to shape US public policy for the last several decades. Perstein offers new insights into the role that race relations played in galvanizing the new right and suggests that racial resentments shaped the political realignment of the 1960’s as significantly as the Vietnam War. Overall, Perlstein manages to produce an action-packed account of the period between 1964-1972 while simultaneously making an important intellectual contribution.”
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Harsha (5 out of 5 stars)
