Between 19 America experienced no less than a second civil war. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Perlstein’s epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson’s historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Told with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency of the United States. Rick Perlstein’s bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know-American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 19-into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.” -Jeffrey Toobin “Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” -Jon Meacham His success is dazzling.” - Los Angeles Times Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein’s magisterial account of how it all happened confirms his place as one of our country’s most celebrated historians.“Perlstein.aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born.

“Perlstein.aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval.