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The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Simon & Schuster
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
800 pages
ISBN: 1476782415
EAN: 9781476782416
Kindle: B00HXGD5CE
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Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction History
From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling
portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in
the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. 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. The next president declared
upon Nixon’s resignation “our long national nightmare is
over”—but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA
for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South
Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some
58,000 American lives. The economy was in tatters. And as
Americans began thinking about their nation in a new way—as
one more nation among nations, no more providential than any
other—the pundits declared that from now on successful
politicians would be the ones who honored this chastened new
national mood.
Ronald Reagan never got the message.
Which was why, when he announced his intention to challenge
President Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination, those
same pundits dismissed him—until, amazingly, it started to
look like he just might win. He 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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