Status Updates From Nixonland: The Rise of a Pr...

“A letter to Life later that summer read, “It was a valuable object lesson to homegrown advocates of anarchy and revolution, regardless of age”.
Time had called the Silent Majority “not so much shrill as perplexed” possessed of a “civics-book sense of decency.” Pity poor Time, whose America was but a memory.”

The holiday has kept me moving through this at a pitiful pace but I’m still highly interested anytime I get the chance to read a chapter or two

Watergate, McGovern, Humphrey and Ratf😱😶‍🌫️🫠ing. What a time.

Extremely interesting so far. Nixon’s biography is great reading on its own, but Perlstein adds so much with his insights into how Tricky Dick’s political career intersects with/helped shift American cultural consensus.