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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America»rank: 2286par: Rick Perlstein
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: How did we go from Lyndon Johnson's landslide Democratic victory in 1964 to Richard Nixon's equally lopsided Republican reelection only eight years later? The years in between were among the most chaotic in American history, with an endless and unpopular war, riots, assassinations, social upheaval, Southern resistance, protests both peaceful and armed, and a 'Silent Majority' that twice elected the central figure of the age, a brilliant politician who relished the battles of the day but ended them in disgrace. ln Nixonland Rick ... |
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus»rank: 28827par: Rick Perlstein
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the G0P, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of ... |
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Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents»rank: 186334par: Richard Nixon
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the G0P, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of ... |
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The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party»rank: 1008220par: Rick Perlstein
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the G0P, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of ... |
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Healing Richard Nixon: A Doctor's Memoir»rank: 1320467par: John C. Lungren
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the G0P, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of ... |
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus»rank: 848048par: Rick Perlstein
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the G0P, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of ... |
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America»rank: 639550par: Rick Perlstein
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: How did we go from Lyndon Johnson's landslide Democratic victory in 1964 to Richard Nixon's equally lopsided Republican reelection only eight years later? The years in between were among the most chaotic in American history, with an endless and unpopular war, riots, assassinations, social upheaval, Southern resistance, protests both peaceful and armed, and a 'Silent Majority' that twice elected the central figure of the age, a brilliant politician who relished the battles of the day but ended them in disgrace. ln Nixonland Rick ... |
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus»rank: 623250par: Rick Perlstein
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the G0P, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of ... |
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