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Full text of ' ALSO BY RICK PERLSTEIN Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus SCRIBNER A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2008 by Rick Perlstein Ail rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Scribner Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. SCRIBNER and design are registered trademarks of The Gale Group, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, Inc., the publisher of this work. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. Un dos tres torrent. ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-7988-5 ISBN-10:1-4165-7988-5 Visit us on the World Wide Web: http:7Avww.SimonSavs.com To the memory of Paul Cowan (1940-1988) and J. Anthony Lukas (1933-1997), two heroes I never got a chance to meet.

To the memory of Allison Patricia Geier (October 31, 1999-February 7, 2007), whose wonderful family never got a chance to see her radiant soul set loose upon the world. And finally, to the memory of the dozens of Americans who lost their lives at the hands of other Americans, for ideological reasons, between the years of 1965 and 1972. Their names are recorded throughout this book. CONTENTS Preface BOOK I 1 Hell in the City of Angels 2 The Orthogonian 3 The Stench 4 Ronald Reagan 5 Long. Hot Summer 6 School Was in Session. 7 Batting Average BOOK II 8 The Bombing 9 Summer of Love 10 In Which a Cruise Ship Full of Governors Inspires Considerations on the Nature of Old and New Politics 11 Fed-up-niks 12 The Sky’s the Limit 13 Violence 14 From Miami to the Siege of Chicago 15 Wednesday.

1968 16 Winning BOOK III 17 The First One Hundred Days 18 Trust 19 If Gold Rust 20 The Presidential Offensive 21 The Polarization 22 Tourniquet 23 Mavdav 24 Purity 25 Agnew’s Election BOOK IV 26 Howto Survive the Debacle 27 Cruelest Month 28 Ping-Pong 29 The Coven 30 The Party of Jefferson. Jackson, and George Wallace 31 The Spring Offensive 32 Celebrities 33 In Which Playboy Bunnies, and Barbarella. Inspire Theoretical Considerations upon the Nature of Democracy 34 Not Half Enough Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments NIXONLAND PREFACE In 1964, the Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon B.

Johnson won practically the biggest landslide in American history, with 61.05 percent of the popular vote and 486 of 538 electoral college votes. In 1972, the Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon won a strikingly similar landslide—60.67 percent and 520 electoral college votes. In the eight years in between, the batde lines that define our culture and politics were forged in blood and fire. This is a book about how that happened, and why.