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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.924
EAN: 9780743243025
ISBN: 0743243021
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 896
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
Publisher: Scribner
Sales Rank: 2068
Studio: Scribner
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Rating: - About then, about now
This is a journalist's cultural account of the Nixon years, not a historian's textbook, and not a biography of RMN. It's a great read, filled with fabulous details that historians tend to overlook. Here's Al Capp trying to pick a fight with John Lennon; there's Lorne Greene attacking McGovern for lack of support of Israel.
Three caveats. First, the nature of the book makes it hard to figure out where you are. As others have mentioned, dates aren't given, and he does go back and forth ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointing: expected more
I had heard good things about Nixonland and it started out very well. Unfortunately, Perlstein perpetuates a lot of the mythology of that period and could not repress his own biases in his discussion of Richard Nixon and his times. As previous reviewers have noted, this book is loaded with inaccuracies and poor research but of greatest importance, he misses (or miscasts) the central tragedy of that period and Nixon. Richard Nixon pursued the presidency as an idealist, believing in the purity of the ... Read More
Rating:  - Insightful history of the US 1955-1975
The book gives a detailed and insightful history of US politics 1955-1975, roughly the "Era of Nixon." Anyone who lived through those times, or anyone who is interested in the principal trends of American politics, will benefit from this analysis. It's really a very good book.
Rating: - Not what I expected
I thought it was going to be a visitors' guide to a new theme park.
Well, it was still pretty good.
Rating: - NIxonland: Still With Us Today?
A sprawling, compulsively readable tale of a divided America spinning out of control over an unpopular, divisive war and civil rights and social justice issues. Perlstein argues that Richard Nixon helped end the consensus on Great Society liberalism, and divided America along lines that still divide her. Perlstein paints a picture of Richard Nixon as a brooding, jealous loner, filled with resentments against more privileged opponents like the Kennedys, but also a master demagogue and mass manipulator ... Read More
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