Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. His essays and book reviews have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Slate, among others. A contributing editor and board member of In These Times magazine, he lives in Chicago.
"A richly detailed descent into the inferno -- that is, the years
when Richard Milhous Nixon, 'a serial collector of resentments,'
ruled the land." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Nixonland 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. This riveting
book, full of colorful detail and great characters, brings back to
life an astonishing era -- and shines a new light on our own." --
Jeffrey Toobin author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the
Supreme Court
"This is a terrific read. What a delight it is to discover the new
generation of historians like Rick Perlstein not only getting
history correct but giving us all fresh insights and understanding
of it." -- John W. Dean Nixon's White House counsel
"Rick Perlstein has written a fascinating account of the rise of
Richard Nixon and a persuasive argument that this angry, toxic man
will always be part of the American landscape." -- Richard Reeves
author of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination
"Rick Perlstein's Nixonland digs deep into a decisive period of our
history and brings back a past that is all the scarier for its
intense humanity. With a firm grasp on the larger meaning of
countless events and personalities, many of them long forgotten,
Perlstein superbly shows how paranoia and innuendo flowed into the
mainstream of American politics after 1968, creating divisive
passions that have survived for decades." -- Sean Wilentz Princeton
University, author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008
"The best book written about the 1960s." -- Newsweek
Perlstein, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, provides a compelling account of Richard Nixon as a masterful harvester of negative energy, turning the turmoil of the 1960s into a ladder to political notoriety. Perlstein's key narrative begins at about the time of the Watts riots, in the shadow of Lyndon Johnson's overwhelming 1964 victory at the polls against Goldwater, which left America's conservative movement broken. Through shrewdly selected anecdotes, Perlstein demonstrates the many ways Nixon used riots, anti-Vietnam War protests, the drug culture and other displays of unrest as an easy relief against which to frame his pitch for his narrow win of 1968 and landslide victory of 1972. Nixon spoke of solid, old-fashioned American values, law and order and respect for the traditional hierarchy. In this way, says Perlstein, Nixon created a new dividing line in the rhetoric of American political life that remains with us today. At the same time, Perlstein illuminates the many demons that haunted Nixon, especially how he came to view his political adversaries as "enemies" of both himself and the nation and brought about his own downfall. 16 pages of b&w photos. (May) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
"A richly detailed descent into the inferno -- that is, the years
when Richard Milhous Nixon, 'a serial collector of resentments,'
ruled the land." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Nixonland 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. This riveting
book, full of colorful detail and great characters, brings back to
life an astonishing era -- and shines a new light on our own." --
Jeffrey Toobin author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of
the Supreme Court
"This is a terrific read. What a delight it is to discover the new
generation of historians like Rick Perlstein not only getting
history correct but giving us all fresh insights and understanding
of it." -- John W. Dean Nixon's White House counsel
"Rick Perlstein has written a fascinating account of the rise of
Richard Nixon and a persuasive argument that this angry, toxic man
will always be part of the American landscape." -- Richard Reeves
author of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination
"Rick Perlstein's Nixonland digs deep into a decisive period
of our history and brings back a past that is all the scarier for
its intense humanity. With a firm grasp on the larger meaning of
countless events and personalities, many of them long forgotten,
Perlstein superbly shows how paranoia and innuendo flowed into the
mainstream of American politics after 1968, creating divisive
passions that have survived for decades." -- Sean Wilentz Princeton
University, author of The Age of Reagan: A History,
1974-2008
"The best book written about the 1960s." -- Newsweek
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