Nixonland
Subtitle: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Publisher: Scribner
Published: May 13, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780743243025
Subjects: Political Process - Elections; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; United States - General; History; History - U.S; History: American
Description: An account of the thirth-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.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; title: Book I; label: 1
title: Hell in the City of Angles
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The Orthogonian
pagenum: 20; label: 3
title: The Stench
pagenum: 44; label: 4
title: Ronald Reagan
pagenum: 70; label: 5
title: Long, Hot Summer
pagenum: 96; label: 6
title: School Was in Session...
pagenum: 128; label: 7
title: Batting Average
pagenum: 141; title: Book II; label: 8
title: The Bombing
pagenum: 169; label: 9
title: Summer of Love
pagenum: 185; label: 10
title: In Which a Cruise Ship Full of Governors Inspires Considerations on the Nature of Old and New Politics
pagenum: 200; label: 11
title: Fed-up-niks
pagenum: 227; label: 12
title: The Sky's the Limit
pagenum: 254; label: 13
title: Violence
pagenum: 274; label: 14
title: From Miami to the Siege of Chicago
pagenum: 295; label: 15
title: Wednesday, August 28, 1968
pagenum: 315; label: 16
title: Winning
pagenum: 328; title: Book III; label: 17
title: The First One Hundred Days
pagenum: 357; label: 18
title: Trust
pagenum: 373; label: 19
title: If Gold Rust
pagenum: 397; label: 20
title: The Presidential Offensive
pagenum: 412; label: 21
title: The Polarization
pagenum: 445; label: 22
title: Tourniquet
pagenum: 459; label: 23
title: Mayday
pagenum: 477; label: 24
title: Purity
pagenum: 500; label: 25
title: Agnew's Education
pagenum: 524; title: Book IV; label: 26
title: How to Survive the Debacle
pagenum: 541; label: 27
title: Cruelest Month
pagenum: 551; label: 28
title: Ping-Pong
pagenum: 569; label: 29
title: The Coven
pagenum: 585; label: 30
title: The Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and George Wallace
pagenum: 607; label: 31
title: The Spring Offensive
pagenum: 635; label: 32
title: Celebrities
pagenum: 660; label: 33
title: In which Playboy Bunnies, and Barbarella, and Tanya, Inspire Theoretical Considerations upon the Nature of Democracy
pagenum: 686; label: 34
title: Not Half Enough
pagenum: 720; title: Notes
pagenum: 749; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 831; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 837; title: Index
pagenum: 841