Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Perlstein, Rick

ISBN 10: 0743243021 / ISBN 13: 9780743243025

Editore: Scribner, 2008

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Riassunto:

An account of the thirty-seventh presidency sets Nixon's administration against a backdrop of the tumultuous civil rights movement while offering insight into how key events in the 1960s set the stage for today's political divides, in a chronicle that documents such events as the Watts riots and Nixon's landslide reelection. 60,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull'autore: Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consenus, which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. His essays and book reviews have been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Slate, among others. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for independent scholars. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

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Titolo: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the ...
Casa editrice: Scribner
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: very_good