{"product_id":"nixonland-the-rise-of-a-president-and-the-fracturing-of-america-9780743243032","title":"Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.\" --Jon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNixonland\u003c\/i\u003e is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know--American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972--into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.\" --Jeffrey Toobin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRick Perlstein's bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, \u003ci\u003eNixonland\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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. 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. Between 1965 and 1972 America experienced no less than a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein's magisterial account of how it all happened confirms his place as one of our country's most celebrated historians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerlstein, Rick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rick Perlstein is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNixonland: The Rise of a President\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Fracturing of America\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and \u003ci\u003eBefore the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2001 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays and book reviews have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A contributing editor and board member of \u003ci\u003eIn These Times \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, he lives in Chicago.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610454954258,"sku":"9780743243032","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1ca1d6d-19b4-4d83-93c4-d832447b361e.jpg?v=1732342805","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nixonland-the-rise-of-a-president-and-the-fracturing-of-america-9780743243032","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}