Nixonland

The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Rick Perlstein ISBN: 9781451606263
Publisher: Scribner Publication: July 29, 2010
Imprint: Scribner Language: English
Author: Rick Perlstein
ISBN: 9781451606263
Publisher: Scribner
Publication: July 29, 2010
Imprint: Scribner
Language: English

An exciting e-format containing 27 video clips taken directly from the CBS news archive of a brilliant, best-selling account of the Nixon era by one of America’s most talented young historians.

Between 1965 and 1972 America experienced a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know today was born.

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 reelected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's, and the outlines of today's politics of red-and-blue division became already distinct.

Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland:

• Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods, while suburbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns.

• The civil war over Vietnam, the assassinations, the riot at the Democratic National Convention.

• Richard Nixon acceding to the presidency pledging a new dawn of national unity--and governing more divisively than any before him.

• The rise of twin cultures of left- and right-wing vigilantes, Americans literally bombing and cutting each other
down in the streets over political differences.

•And, finally, Watergate, the fruit of a president who rose by matching his own anxieties and dreads with those of an increasingly frightened electorate--but whose anxieties and dreads produced a criminal conspiracy in the Oval Office.

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An exciting e-format containing 27 video clips taken directly from the CBS news archive of a brilliant, best-selling account of the Nixon era by one of America’s most talented young historians.

Between 1965 and 1972 America experienced a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know today was born.

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 reelected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's, and the outlines of today's politics of red-and-blue division became already distinct.

Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland:

• Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods, while suburbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns.

• The civil war over Vietnam, the assassinations, the riot at the Democratic National Convention.

• Richard Nixon acceding to the presidency pledging a new dawn of national unity--and governing more divisively than any before him.

• The rise of twin cultures of left- and right-wing vigilantes, Americans literally bombing and cutting each other
down in the streets over political differences.

•And, finally, Watergate, the fruit of a president who rose by matching his own anxieties and dreads with those of an increasingly frightened electorate--but whose anxieties and dreads produced a criminal conspiracy in the Oval Office.

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