Ebook {Epub PDF} Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

 · This faux-populism appears over and over in Nixonland: The Rise Of A President And The Fracturing Of America, Rick Perlstein's exhaustively detailed tome on how the 37th president shaped American. Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein’s widely-praised “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America” was published in His first book “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus” explores American culture in the s/5(). Told with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America’s turbulent s and early s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency of the United States. Perlstein’s epic account begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson’s historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to Cited by:

Rick Perlstein. Scribner. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. By Rick Perlstein. hardcover, pages. Scribner. List price: $ In , the Democratic. OCLC. Dewey Decimal. Preceded by. Before the Storm. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America is a history book written by Rick Perlstein, released in May Perlstein, Rick; et al. (). The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm. ISBN Perlstein, Rick (). Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. New York: Scribner. ISBN

Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein’s widely-praised “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America” was published in His first book “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus” explores American culture in the s. Summary. Perlstein's thesis is that Richard Nixon manipulated the political and social events between 19in a way that shaped the political divisions of the present day. As quoted by a reviewer in The Nation, the titular "Nixonland" is where "two separate and irreconcilable sets of apocalyptic fears coexist in the minds of two separate and irreconcilable groups of Americans.". Overview. “Perlstein aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times. “Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” —Jon Meacham. “Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know—American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of and —into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.