NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater seemed to have heralded a permanent liberal consensus. The next year scores of liberals were thrown out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Six years later, President Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and resentment borne of that blood and fire, was re-elected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's, and the outlines of today's US politics of red-and-blue division became distinct.
- ISBN10 0743243021
- ISBN13 9780743243025
- Publish Date 7 July 2008 (first published 13 May 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Imprint Scribner
- Pages 640
- Language English