Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America / Rick Perlstein
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- 4391750
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- Author:
- Perlstein, Rick, 1969-
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- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Scribner, 2008
- xiii, 881 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780743243025
- 0743243021
- Summary:
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An account of the thirth-seventh presidency sets Nixon's administration against a backdrop of the tumultuous civil rights movement while offering insight into how key events in the 1960s set the stage for today's political divides.
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- Preface
- Book I
- 1 Hell in the City of Angels
- 2 The Orthogonian
- 3 The Stench
- 4 Ronald Reagan
- 5 Long, Hot Summer
- 6 School Was in Session...
- 7 Batting Average
- Book Ii
- 8 The Bombing
- 9 Summer of Love
- 10 In Which a Cruise Ship Full of Governors Inspires Considerations on the Nature of Old and New Politics
- 11 Fed-up-niks
- 12 The Sky's the Limit
- 13 Violence
- 14 From Miami to the Siege of Chicago
- 15 Wednesday, August 28, 1968
- 16 Winning
- Book Iii
- 17 The First One Hundred Days
- 18 Trust
- 19 If Gold Rust
- 20 The Presidential Offensive
- 21 The Polarization
- 22 Tourniquet
- 23 Mayday
- 24 Purity
- 25 Agnew's Election
- Book Iv
- 26 How to Survive the Debacle
- 27 Cruelest Month
- 28 Ping-Pong
- 29 The Coven
- 30 The Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and George Wallace
- 31 The Spring Offensive
- 32 Celebrities
- 33 In Which Playboy Bunnies, and Barbarella, and Tanya, Inspire Theoretical Considerations upon the Nature of Democracy
- 34 Not Half Enough
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 831- 835) and index.
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- Rise of a president and the fracturing of America
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