Told with vivid 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 of the United States. Rick Perlstein’s bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know-American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 19-into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.” -Jeffrey Toobin “Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” -Jon Meacham
His success is dazzling.” - Los Angeles Times “Perlstein.aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. And while you might be forgiven for wanting to escape from our own noxious political climate, Nixonland will at least let you escape to a time when our leaders were just as malevolent but quite a bit more competent. Perlstein defines the titular “Nixonland” as a place where “two separate and irreconcilable sets of apocalyptic fears coexist in the minds of two separate and irreconcilable groups of Americans." As for the man at the center of it all, Perlstein draws Nixon as a sort of tortured Richard III type: cynical, manipulative, and very much a villain, but not without a certain underdog charm. The book makes an compelling case for the career of Richard Nixon, with all its caustic rhetoric and manipulative machinations, as setting the course for the next half-century of American politics. Rick Perlstein's Nixonland does something remarkable, similar to what was accomplished in last year's Oscar-winning documentary O.J.: Made in America: it takes as its focal point a single, familiar figure while also offering a panoramic view of a critical moment in American history and culture.
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