false 2393575 5 Told with urgency and sharp political insight, <I>Nixonland</i> recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.<P>Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon <P>Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus <P>in the United States. Yet 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.<P>Between 1965 and 1972, America experienced no less than a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know 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. There are tantalizing glimpses of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious young men named Karl Rove and William Clinton -- and a not so ambitious young man named George W. Bush.<P><P>Cataclysms tell the story of <I>Nixonland</i>:<P><P>¥ Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods in cities across the land as white suburbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns<P>¥ The student insurgency over the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention<P>¥ The fissuring of the Democratic Party into warring factions manipulated by the "dirty tricks" of Nixon and his Committee to Re-Elect the President<P>¥ Richard Nixon pledging a new dawn of national unity, governing more divisively than any president before him, then directing a criminal conspiracy, the Watergate cover-up, from the Oval Office<P><P>Then, in November 1972, Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and resentment born of America's turmoil, was reelected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's 1964 victory, not only setting the stage for his dramatic 1974 resignation but defining the terms of the ideological divide that characterizes America today. <P>Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein's magisterial account of how America divided confirms his place as one of our country's most celebrated historians.<P> 2400587 13 5 2008 Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon, 1965-1972. total:434|5:179|4:185|3:53|2:13|1:4| 434 1824 1212 159 4 17 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 13 16:45:26 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 02 20:49:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 15:45:13 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 16:03:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jun 15 20:58:14 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 21:42:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:58:11 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:58:11 -0800 2009 Perlstein's writing earned high marks from almost all critics; even the conservative columnist George Will, whose review in the New York Times was at times quite negative, called the book "compulsively readable." Other reviewers' opinions seemed to depend on what they were looking for from...

more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 23 15:28:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 15:31:46 -0800 2009 STOP SMILING review of Nixonland:

When it’s written well, with style and wit and invention, I prefer nonfiction to any other form of writing.

You won’t find those qualities on display in mainstream journalism. You have to look on the fringes or dig into the recent ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 05:08:43 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 05:09:32 -0800 2009
Out ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 11:15:43 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 11:50:37 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 09:18:31 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 09:45:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 26 09:47:56 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:53:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun May 31 19:30:24 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 19:39:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 18:14:45 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 18:28:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 08 17:08:49 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 12:43:27 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 15 15:59:40 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 15:37:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 03:24:31 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 02:19:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:40:27 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 11:10:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:22:05 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:46:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 13:14:32 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 08:02:52 -0700 2009
I...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 15:57:04 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 18:14:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 25 13:15:08 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 13:22:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 05 12:19:39 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 18:03:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2393575