A review by jillreads77
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

4.0

I listened to this book, it's a 36 hours long. I was engaged through the whole book. The book covers from the early 1960's to the early 1970's. The early failures of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. The riots and protests and use of fear and the idea of a silent majority are all covered. I felt such irritation at all the problems that were fracturing us then, still completely relevant and all consuming today. Health insurance, poverty, systemic racism, staying in power at any cost, police brutality, corruption, it's all in there. I was born in the late 70's, most of the information about this era has to be sought out, it wasn't ever mentioned in any of my high school or college courses. Perlstein presents the the history in an understandable and engaging way. I kept wanting to get back to hear more about the major players of the day and fill in more gaps in my knowledge of this era.