Book Summary

�Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.� �Los Angeles Times

�Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.� �Jon Meacham

�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.� �Jeffrey Toobin

Rick Perlstein�s bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today.

Told with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland 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.

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