![]() ![]() The fissuring of the Democrats into warring factions manipulated by the dirty tricks of Nixon & his Committee to ReElect the President. ![]() The riots at the '68 Democratic Nat'l Convention. ![]() Bush.Ĭataclysms tell the story: Blacks trashing their neighborhoods. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry & even of two ambitious young men named Karl Rove & Bill Clinton-& an unambitious young man named Geo W. There are glimpses of Jimmy Carter, Geo H.W. It was the era not only of Nixon, Johnson, Agnew, Humphrey, McGovern, Daley & Geo Wallace but Abbie Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, Ted Kennedy, Chas Manson, John Lindsay & Jane Fonda. From its ashes, today's political world was born. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed from Congress, America was more divided than ever & a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback.īetween '65 & '72, America experienced a 2nd civil war. Perlstein's account begins with the '65 Watts riots, nine months after Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus. ![]() Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize & hold the presidency. ![]()
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