"The main character in Nixonland is not Nixon. Its protagonist, in fact, has no name—but lives on every page. It is the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because to do anything else, at least that particular Tuesday in November, seemed to court civilizational chaos, and who, eight years later, pulled the lever for the Republican for exactly t (...)
October 10, 2008
Books
A Checkered Past
NixonlandThe Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaRick PerlsteinScribner, $37.50, 896 pp.
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