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1. • • Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein 4.24 10,259 ratings1,054 reviews Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.
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   • "Rick Perlstein's Nixonland digs deep into a decisive period of our history and brings back a past that is all the scarier for its intense humanity.

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   • Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's account begins with the '65 Watts riots, nine months after Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus.

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   Where can I find a book about Nixon?

   • Richard M. Nixon. The American Presidents Series. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6963-1. Evans, Rowland; Novak, Robert (1971). Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-46273-8. Ezell, Edward Clinton; Ezell, Linda Neuman (1978). The Partnership: A History of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

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   Why did America become Nixonland?

   • Perlstein’s thesis is that America became Nixonland because of “the rise of two American identities” in the 1960s actually between 1964, when Johnson won 61.1 percent of the vote, and 1968, when the combined votes for Nixon and George Wallace were 56.9 percent. Perlstein says Nixon’s legacy is the “notion that there are two kinds of Americans.”

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   Is Nixon a psychodrama?

   • Having cast the Nixon story as a psychodrama, Perlstein has no need to engage the ideas that were crucial to conservatism’s remarkably idea-driven ascendancy, ideas like the perils of identity politics and the justice of market allocations of wealth and opportunity. Instead, Perlstein dwells on motives, which he usually presents as crass or worse.

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   Why did President Nixon re-elected a landslide?

   • Six years later, President Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and resentment borne of that blood and fire, was re-elected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's, and the outlines of today's US politics of red-and-blue division became distinct.

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   May 11, 2008 · Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book argues that Richard Nixon is the explanation for everything — or at least for the rise of the right and the decline of almost everything else.

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   May 18, 2009 · Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling 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.

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   May 1, 2008 · NIXONLAND. THE RISE OF A PRESIDENT AND THE FRACTURING OF AMERICA. by Rick Perlstein ‧RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2008. A solid work of political history, if necessarily long and grim in the telling. bookshelf. shop now.

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   Mar 21, 2018 · Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein’s widely-praised “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America” was published in 2008. His first book "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" explores American culture in the 1960s.

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   Apr 14, 2009 · Told with vivid 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 of the United States.