A review by ttodd86
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

3.0

Finishing this on Donald Trump's final full day as president of the United States and it feels like I would have been better served had I finished it on the first. This is a long book and at times it is frustrating -- however, its story is important for those who were either too young at the time to fully grasp Nixon or were not yet born. Published eight years before the 2016 presidential election, the book feels like the precursor to U.S.A. post 2016. More importantly, we must understand the divisions exploited by Nixon and Trump if we are going to move forward as a nation.