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The invisible bridge : the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan / Rick Perlstein.
Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xx, 856 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781476782416 :
- 1476782415 :
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Reagan, Ronald
- Conservatism -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1974-1977
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Reagan, Ronald
- Conservatism
- Political science
- United States
- 1969 - 1981
- E855 .P468 2014
Contents:
Summary: The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan.
"Small and suspicious circles" -- Stories -- Let them eat brains -- Executive privilege -- "A whale of a good cheerleader" -- Sam Ervin -- John Dean -- Nostalgia -- The year without Christmas lights -- "That thing upstairs isn't my daughter" -- Hank Aaron -- "Here comes the pitch!" -- Judging -- "There used to be a president who didn't lie" -- New Right? -- Watergate babies -- Star -- Governing -- "Disease, disease, disease" -- New Right -- Weimar summer -- The nation's soul -- "Has the Gallup Poll gone bananas?" -- Negatives are positives -- "Not the candidate of kooks" -- Born again -- "Always shuck the tamale" -- They yearned to believe -- Bicentennial -- "You're in the catbird seat" -- "Don't let Satan have his way--stop the ERA" -- The end?
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | E 855 .P468 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5118008 |
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| E 855 .B37 2006 Something happened : a political and cultural overview of the seventies / | E 855 .K56 2004 Crisis : the anatomy of two major foreign policy crises / | E 855 .M3 1970 The neurotic trillionaire; a survey of Mr. Nixon's America. | E 855 .P468 2014 The invisible bridge : the fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan / | E 855 .P47 2009 Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America / | E 855 .W46 1970 Naive questions about war and peace. Conversations with Eugene V. Rostow. | E 856 .L54 2003 Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the press : a historical retrospective / |
Includes index.
The best-selling author of Nixonland presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering events ranging from the Arab oil embargo and the era of Patty Hearst to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the rise of Ronald Reagan.
"Small and suspicious circles" -- Stories -- Let them eat brains -- Executive privilege -- "A whale of a good cheerleader" -- Sam Ervin -- John Dean -- Nostalgia -- The year without Christmas lights -- "That thing upstairs isn't my daughter" -- Hank Aaron -- "Here comes the pitch!" -- Judging -- "There used to be a president who didn't lie" -- New Right? -- Watergate babies -- Star -- Governing -- "Disease, disease, disease" -- New Right -- Weimar summer -- The nation's soul -- "Has the Gallup Poll gone bananas?" -- Negatives are positives -- "Not the candidate of kooks" -- Born again -- "Always shuck the tamale" -- They yearned to believe -- Bicentennial -- "You're in the catbird seat" -- "Don't let Satan have his way--stop the ERA" -- The end?
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