The invisible bridge : the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan
Perlstein, Rick, 1969-2014
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In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term - until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. By 1976, Ronald Reagan was inventing the new conservative political culture we know now, in which a vision of patriotism rooted in a sense of American limits was derailed in America's Bicentennial year by the rise of the smiling politician from Hollywood. Against a backdrop of melodramas from the Arab oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of America's greatest city, 'The Invisible Bridge' asks the question: what does it mean to believe in America? To wave a flag - or to reject the glibness of the flag wavers?
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The invisible bridge : the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan / by Rick Perlstein.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Collation:
800 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781476782416 (hbk)
Dewey class:
973.9'24973.924
Language:
English
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BRN:
2016470
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