Nixonland book review5/21/2023 Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland: -Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods in cities across the land as white suburbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns -The student insurgency over the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Robert F. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious young men named Karl Rove and William Clinton - and a not so ambitious young man named George W. There are tantalizing glimpses of Jimmy Carter, George H. Daley, and George Wallace but Abbie Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, Ted Kennedy, Charles Manson, John Lindsay, and Jane Fonda. It was the era not only of Nixon, Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Hubert H. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. Between 19, America experienced no less than a second civil war. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. 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.
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