2008, ISBN: 0743243021

[EAN: 9780743243025], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Scribner], NIXON, RICHARD M. (RICHARD MILHOUS), 1913-1994, PRESIDENTS -- UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 1969-19… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780743243025], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Scribner], NIXON, RICHARD M. (RICHARD MILHOUS), 1913-1994, PRESIDENTS -- UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 1969-1974, 1963-1969, DEWEY: 973.924, Jacket, 896 pages.Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixo nland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and re veals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize an d hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the b lood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon J ohnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Ye t the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician wa s on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Between 196 5 and 1972, America experienced no less than a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. It wa s the era not only of Nixon, Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Hubert H. Hump hrey, George McGovern, Richard J. Daley, and George Wallace but A bbie Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, Ted Kennedy, Charles M anson, John Lindsay, and Jane Fonda. There are tantalizing glimps es of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious young men named Karl Rove and William Clinton -- and a not so ambitious young man named George W. Bush. Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland: Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods in cities across the land as white subu rbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns The student insur gency over the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Robert F. Kenne dy and Martin Luther King, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic N ational Convention The fissuring of the Democratic Party into w arring factions manipulated by the dirty tricks of Nixon and his Committee to Re-Elect the President Richard Nixon pledging a ne w dawn of national unity, governing more divisively than any pres ident before him, then directing a criminal conspiracy, the Water gate cover-up, from the Oval Office Then, in November 1972, Nix on, harvesting the bitterness and resentment born of America's tu rmoil, was reelected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's 19 64 victory, not only setting the stage for his dramatic 1974 resi gnation but defining the terms of the ideological divide that cha racterizes America today. Filled with prodigious research and d riven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein's magisterial accou nt of how America divided confirms his place as one of our countr y's most celebrated historians., Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780743243025

Scribner. Very Good. 235mm / 155mm. Hardback. 2008. 896 pages.<br>Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixo nland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s … Mehr…

Scribner. Very Good. 235mm / 155mm. Hardback. 2008. 896 pages.<br>Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixo nland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and re veals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize an d hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the b lood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon J ohnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Ye t the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician wa s on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Between 196 5 and 1972, America experienced no less than a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. It wa s the era not only of Nixon, Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Hubert H. Hump hrey, George McGovern, Richard J. Daley, and George Wallace but A bbie Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, Ted Kennedy, Charles M anson, John Lindsay, and Jane Fonda. There are tantalizing glimps es of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious young men named Karl Rove and William Clinton -- and a not so ambitious young man named George W. Bush. Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland: Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods in cities across the land as white subu rbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns The student insur gency over the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Robert F. Kenne dy and Martin Luther King, and the riots at the 1968 Democratic N ational Convention The fissuring of the Democratic Party into w arring factions manipulated by the dirty tricks of Nixon and his Committee to Re-Elect the President Richard Nixon pledging a ne w dawn of national unity, governing more divisively than any pres ident before him, then directing a criminal conspiracy, the Water gate cover-up, from the Oval Office Then, in November 1972, Nix on, harvesting the bitterness and resentment born of America's tu rmoil, was reelected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's 19 64 victory, not only setting the stage for his dramatic 1974 resi gnation but defining the terms of the ideological divide that cha racterizes America today. Filled with prodigious research and d riven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein's magisterial accou nt of how America divided confirms his place as one of our countr y's most celebrated historians. ., Scribner, 2008, 3<

2008, ISBN: 0743243021

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