Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Audiobook

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• “Nixonland is a grand historical epic...This riveting book, full of colorful detail and great characters, brings back to life an astonishing era—and shines a new light on our own.”

  — Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times bestselling author

• “Rick Perlstein has written a fascinating account of the rise of Richard Nixon and a persuasive argument that this angry, toxic man will always be part of the American landscape.”

  — Richard Reeves, New York Times bestselling author of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination

• “Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland digs deep into a decisive period of our history and brings back a past that is all the scarier for its intense humanity. With a firm grasp on the larger meaning of countless events and personalities, many of them long forgotten, Perlstein superbly shows how paranoia and innuendo flowed into the mainstream of American politics after 1968, creating divisive passions that have survived for decades.”

  — Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008

• “A great...book...It’s a great gift for somebody who really likes the dark side of politics.”

  — Chris Matthews

• “Perlstein is a fine writer with a well-developed capacity for seeing irony and absurdity; his storytelling skills make this an absorbing book, full of surprising details.”

  — Washington Post

• “[Nixonland] cements [Perlstein’s] reputation as a gifted and discerning historian. An exceptional work of excavation, synthesis, and storytelling, Nixonland derives its power partly from its resonance.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “The best book written about the 1960s.”

  — Newsweek

• “This sprawling, complex, well-written book is jam-packed with ideas and insights that will capture any reader’s attention...Nixonland is a fascinating book that reads like a novel. Whether readers lived through the 60s or not, they will be gripped from start to finish.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Perlstein...is America’s best living historian of the conservative movement...Myth after myth of the 1960s are punctured...It is bigger and better than ideology.”

  — American Spectator

• “Perlstein is well known as a writer on the left, but his historian’s empathies are intense and unpredictable: he convincingly channels the resentment and rage on both sides of the battle lines and lets neither Nixon’s cynicism nor the naivete of liberals like New York mayor John Lindsay off the hook. And while election-year readers will be reminded of how much tamer our times are, they’ll also find that the echoes of the era, and its persistent national divisions, still ring loud and clear.”

  — Amazon.com editorial review

• “A compelling account.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A richly detailed descent into the inferno—that is, the years when Richard Milhous Nixon, ‘a serial collector of resentments,’ ruled the land.”

  — Kirkus Reviews