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Nixonland The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

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ISBN-10: 074324303X

ISBN-13: 9780743243032

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rick Perlstein

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"Told with 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 896
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Rick Perlstein was born in Wisconsin in 1969. He writes for Lingua Franca, Slate, and The Nation, and won the national Endowment for the Humanities' most prestigious grant for independent scholars. Perlstein lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Preface
Hell in the City of Angels
The Orthogonian
The Stench
Ronald Reagan
Long, Hot Summer
School Was in Session ...
Batting Average
The Bombing
Summer of Love
In Which a Cruise Ship Full of Governors Inspires Considerations on the Nature of Old and New Politics
Fed-up-niks
The Sky's the Limit
Violence
From Miami to the Siege of Chicago
Wednesday, August 28, 1968
Winning
The First One Hundred Days
Trust
If Gold Rust
The Presidential Offensive
The Polarization
Tourniquet
Mayday
Purity
Agnew's Election
How to Survive the Debacle
Cruelest Month
Ping-Pong
The Coven
The Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and George Wallace
The Spring Offensive
Celebrities
In Which Playboy Bunnies, and Barbarella, and Tanya, Inspire Theoretical Considerations upon the Nature of Democracy
Not Half Enough
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index