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Item Details
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NIXONLAND
THE RISE OF A PRESIDENT AND THE FRACTURING OF AMERICA |
| By: |
Rick Perlstein |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1451606265 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781451606263 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
29 July, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Enhanced edition |
| Pages: |
896 |
| Synopsis: |
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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27 videos from CBS News |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Scribner |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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