The Dangerous Book for Boys by Annie Kubler (Board book - April 2003)
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Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation by Annie Kubler (Board book - April 2003)
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The Daring Book for Girls by Annie Kubler (Board book - April 2003)
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First, Do No Harm by Annie Kubler (Board book - April 2003)
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The Book of General Ignorance by Annie Kubler (Board book - April 2003)
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Ten Little Fingers (Board Books for Babies) by Annie Kubler (Board book - April 2003)
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How did we go from Lyndon Johnson’s landslide Democratic victory in 1964 to Richard Nixon’s equally lopsided Republican reelection only eight years later? The years in between were among the most chaotic in American history, with an endless and unpopular war, riots, assassinations, social upheaval, Southern resistance, protests both peaceful and armed, and a “Silent Majority” that twice elected the central figure of the age, a brilliant politician who relished the battles of the day but ended them in disgrace. In Nixonland Rick Perlstein tells a more familiar story than the one he unearthed in his influential previous book, Before the Storm, which argued that the stunning success of modern conservatism was founded in Goldwater’s massive 1964 defeat. But he makes it fresh and relentlessly compelling, with obsessive original research and a gleefully slashing style–equal parts Walter Winchell and Hunter S. Thompson–that’s true to the times. Perlstein is well known as a writer on the left, but his historian’s empathies are intense and unpredictable: he convincingly channels the resentment and rage on both sides of the battle lines and lets neither Nixon’s cynicism nor the naivete of liberals like New York mayor John Lindsay off the hook. And while election-year readers will be reminded of how much tamer our times are, they’ll also find that the echoes of the era, and the persistent national divisions it helped found, still ring loud and clear. –Tom
Every month, out of the endless stream of new books that flows through our cubicles, our editors choose a favorite few to feature on our Best of the Month page. You’ll find our Significant Seven editors’ picks there, along with more hardcover and paperback favorites and our most popular books from around the country.
In the May Spotlight this month: Nixonland, Rick Perlstein’s vivid chronicle of a chaotic era and the brilliant and brutal politician who presided over it.
