Thebrilliant account of the Nixon era, from his 1968 election to his spectacular 1974 demise, now in paperback.

From one of America's most talented historians comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon--set against the violent passions of America's 1960s Civil War--that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide the nation today. Illustrated.

"The best book written about the 1960s." -- Newsweek