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Perlstein, Rick, 1969-
Subjects
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Reagan, Ronald.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Conservatism -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Perlstein, Rick, 1969-
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Reagan, Ronald.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Conservatism -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
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The
invisible
bridge
: the
fall
of
Nixon
and the
rise
of
Reagan
/ Rick Perlstein.
by
Perlstein, Rick, 1969-
Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Call #:
973.924 P451i
Subjects
Nixon
, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Reagan
, Ronald.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Conservatism -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781476782416 (hc.)
1476782415 (hc.)
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
xx, 856 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
"Small and suspicious circles" -- Stories -- Let them eat brains -- Executive privilege -- "A whale of a good cheerleader" -- Sam Ervin -- John Dean -- Nostalgia -- The year without Christmas lights -- "That thing upstairs isn't my daughter" -- Hank Aaron -- "Here comes the pitch!" -- Judging -- "There used to be a president who didn't lie" -- New Right? -- Watergate babies -- Star -- Governing -- "Disease, disease, disease" -- New Right -- Weimar summer -- The nation's soul -- "Has the Gallup Poll gone bananas?" -- Negatives are positives -- "Not the candidate of kooks" -- Born again -- "Always shuck the tamale" -- They yearned to believe -- Bicentennial -- "You're in the catbird seat" -- "Don't let Satan have his way--stop the ERA" -- The end?
Summary:
"From the author of Nixonland, a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard
Nixon
announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term -- until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon
Nixon
's resignation "our long national nightmare is over" -- but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives. The economy was in tatters. And as Americans began thinking about their nation in a new way -- as one more nation among nations, no more providential than any other -- the pundits declared that from now on successful politicians would be the ones who honored this chastened new national mood. Ronald
Reagan
never got the message. Which was why, when he announced his intention to challenge President Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination, those same pundits dismissed him -- until, amazingly, it started to look like he just might win. He was inventing the new conservative political culture we know now, in which a vision of patriotism rooted in a sense of American limits was derailed in America's Bicentennial year by the
rise
of the smiling politician from Hollywood. All this against a backdrop of melodramas from the Arab oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of America's greatest city. The author offers his source notes online at rickperlstein.net"--Provided by publisher.
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