Nixonland - America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon

Zusatztext "The best book written about the 1960s." -- Newsweek Informationen zum Autor Rick Perlstein Klappentext 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. 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 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. Zusammenfassung Thebrilliant account of the Nixon era, from his 1968 election to his spectacular 1974 demise, now in paperback.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rick Perlstein, Perlstein Rick
• Editore: Scribner USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.04.2009
• EAN: 9780743243032
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-4303-2
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 235 mm x 37 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Political leaders & leadership, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, Political leaders and leadership