We spent April and May 2025 slowly working our way through Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008). It is 750 pages of dense political history covering roughly 1965 to 1972 - from the Watts riots through Nixon's re-election - and it is the second book in Perlstein's four-volume history of American conservatism.

Full notes on the wiki: Nixonland.

What The Book Actually Is

The title is misleading. Nixonland is not really a biography of Richard Nixon. Nixon is the frame - his loss in 1960, his loss in 1962, his political resurrection, his 1968 victory …