A Tangled Web
Subtitle: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: June 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780809016242
Subjects: United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Political History; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; International Relations - General; Political Science / Government / Executive Branch; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: The election year of 1968 was as eventful and tumultuous as any in American history-a war in Vietnam that had turned sour yet offered no easy exit; an antiwar movement at home, chiefly among a generation born during or after World War II to great expectations and ideals, with many both resenting and profiting from a conscription system loaded in favor of the educated and well-to-do; new movements such as feminism just starting to take hold; and above all a deep-seated racial division between African-American and white citizens, as old as the nation itself but attacked more forthrightly by President Lyndon Johnson than by any predecessor, with the result, common in history, that as the possibility of improvement showed itself, bitterness and frustration became all the greater.