After Checkers, to the cosmopolitan liberals, hating Richard Nixon, congratulating yourself for seeing through Richard Nixon and the elaborate political poker bluffs with which he hooked the sentimental rubes, was becoming part and parcel of a political identity…
Four o’clock EST, this Sunday, we discuss the first two chapters of Nixonland.: the Rise of A President and the Fracturing of America.
The book is info-dense, but Perlstein’s range is giving me all sorts of details I hadn’t heard before, even though I consider myself fairly well read about Nixon’s pre-Watergate history.