A review by bird_smuggler
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

5.0

In Nixonland, author Rick Perlstein makes the case that the consensus liberalism of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration belied a dangerous beast being awakened by the groundbreaking changes fostered through the Great Society programs and an unpopular ground war in Asia. The emergent politics of the Nixon coalition would soon overshadow the crumbling remains of the New Deal coalition and Perlstein successfully chronicles the whole depth of these changes. Nixonland makes liberal use of information and facts most of us have heard nothing about that will challenge the ways we've been led to believe the world worked at the time. Even something as extreme as Watergate is successfully recast as merely one of many sinister workings underlying the deeply paranoid Nixon administration. This book is extremely long but extremely worth it.