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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Paperback – April 14, 2009

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April 14, 2009
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003E7ET0S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner Book Company; Reprint edition (April 14, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches

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Steve Jackson

Long, Boring, and Poorly Written

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020

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I've read dozens and dozens of history books and have liked the most. Boy, this one was no fun at all. I love the "inside the room" stuff where you really get a front seat to what it was like to make these decisions, be in middle of a crisis, find out what people are really like, etc. Another trait of a good non-fiction book is the ability to tell a narrative, bring a couple of characters into the forefront, and then use them as a jumping-off point (Michael Lewis does a good job of this). There is very little of either of these aspects in this book.

What this book does have is lists...endless lists. Basically, the author did a google search or lexus-nexus search of early August '67 and then has paragraphs listing facts...

"...in Cleveland so and so happened. In New Mexico a cop did such and such. At Small College in upstate New York the students..." and on and on and on.

I suppose there's an interesting 400-page book somewhere in there, but hard to get to with this boring data dump.

The final insult was in the last couple of pages when the author flips to first person and starts about a dozen paragraphs with, "I have written..." So arrogant.

Skip this one!

I typically don't write reviews, but what a waste of time this book was. I hope this might help some people to avoid this book.

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Jim Lester

Excellent piece of modern American history

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2016

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This is the best singe-volume history of the 1960s I've ever read. Perlstein's thesis is that between 1964 when Lyndon Johnston won the presidency in a landslide and 1972 when Richard Nixon won an overwhelming victory in the presidential race, America divided into two ill-defined, warring camps that have continued into the next century. Fueled by rising frustration over the senseless war in Vietnam and the slow pace of achieving racial equality, people became hippies, anti-war protesters, black nationalists and cultural rebels. The other side morphed into the Silent Majority, the hard hats, the middle class and the friction between these two groups made the sixties one of the most dynamic decades in American history.

The author uses Richard Nixon as the central figure in this conflict and does an excellent job of detailing Nixon's reliance on status politics from his days as a college student to his election as President of the United States in 1972. Along the way, Perlstein uses not only military and political history but social and cultural history to vividly illustrate his points.

The book is extremely well written and well documented and, as a former history teacher, I would highly recommend Perlstein's work to anyone who remembers the sixties or anyone looking for an introduction to the most exciting decade of the second half of the 20th century.

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robert m. leaverton jr.

It is one of the 10 best books of 2008 for reason; its great.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2019

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I like the exhaustive effort the author put into writing this book.
I lived thru these years , but forgot a lot of things and was not aware of much that happened.
The media's presentation of historical facts is much more exhaustive in today's world than it was back then.
Its a great read and this is the second time I have read it.
This book is relevant to understanding where our country is today and how we got here.
And this book is an exhaustive historical document for anyone interested in knowing and understanding the past.
All the things described in this book happened not too long ago; many of the actors are still alive and still influencing world and local events.

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at78rpm

Essential reading

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2016

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What an achievement! If you read no other book about the Nixon years, read this one. Nixonland is an important book because it is the first utterly coherent analysis of what happened to America in the years 1966 to 1972. Anyone who lived through those years knows that the America we were born in died sometime in that era, and the America we now inhabit is not out of the shadow of those years.

Rick Perlstein has an incredibly witty and readable style. There are so many segments you're going to want to read aloud to anyone willing to listen -- and you'll have fun doing so because of Perlstein's excellent writing. I had to stop reading selections to my wife: after a while, I realized it was really the entire book I wanted to read to her. Instead, I bought her a copy for her own use. I know I'll be referring to this one frequently in the future.

It is an unforgettable story, told by a master writer.

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Another great history!

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2021

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A really excellent and very readable - if detailed - political and social history of the tumultuous period in the US between about 1965 and 1972. This book is the second in a series of 4 that covers the period from the 1950's through the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The books' primary concern is the history of conservatism, both politically and socially. Although Perlstein's politics are supposedly progressive (liberal), I think you would be hard-pressed to discern that from his books. I have now finished the first two, and they seem to me very neutral, as far as point of view goes. His criticisms are pointed, but they apply pretty equally to both the left and the right. This particular volume, for example, shows Nixon as both a political genius with an almost unerring sense of the will of the people, and as a psychological mess with both paranoia and narcissism battling for supremacy. Although at times the book tends to become bogged down in details, it always picks up the pace and returns quickly to the fascinating drama that is US history. Highly recommended!

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PaulW

How Nixon used resentments to his advantage

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2021

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This is simply brilliant. The author takes us right into the cultural and political world of the late sixties and early seventies. He shows how Nixon understood the resentments of a large section of American life and set about exploiting them so as to build a winning coalition. It is often ugly. Much of the resentment he taps into, deliberately, is that of white southerners resentful at civil rights legislation and feeling ignored by Washington. But it is not just southerners. He taps similar resentments that are there in the north as well. He is able to bring white working people into the Republican fold. This was also when the South began to vote Republican. It was the same coalition that Reagan came to power through. What the book also does, though this may not be its intent, is show why it is that Donald Trump was able to build a similar coalition. And, just as was the case in Nixon's days, the liberal left couldn't understand why people could possibly vote for him. The liberals in Nixon's day simply assumed that all working people would be on their side. It was just the natural way of things for them. And so they were baffled by the fact that this increasingly was not the case.

Nixon was doing something deeply disturbing. He was playing to the racist instincts of a section of society, fuelling their resentments (subtly) and using them for his own political purposes. His criminality in office is not the only thing that makes him an unattractive president.

Perlstein takes you right into the mood of a country riven by divisions over race, patriotism, and the Vietnam War. As you read you get a real sense of the moods of anger and resentment. It is sometimes grim reading. And at times it is deeply shocking to think people, in great numbers, could endorse self-evidently racist views expressed in horrific terms. Not always for the faint-hearted. But it is a valuable read.

I cannot recommend this book enough.

Filmfenster

Magnificent summary of America in the 60's and '70's

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2016

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Simply superb. It took me months to read it but it was worth every minute. Put simply, this is a long, dense, epic description of how Americans split into two warring factions under Johnson and Nixon, factions that are still battling each other today. It completely changed how I viewed the sixties, a period I always thought I knew something about. Essential reading for anyone who wants to find out how American politics got to where it is today and for anyone who believes the sixties was an era of peace, love, hippies and Woodstock. There was so much more.

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Clovis

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2018

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A great read. If it's all true (or even mostly true) then it is quite scary how messed up America has been for so long, and explains how America has ended up where it is today, with it's current politics.

Chris E.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2018

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Good book

Niall Noonan

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2016

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Great book, well recommended!

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