The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.

In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second termâ€”until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixonâ€™s resignation â€œour long national nightmare is overâ€â€”but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives. The economy was in tatters. And as Americans began thinking about their nation in a new wayâ€”as one more nation among nations, no more providential than any otherâ€”the pundits declared that from now on successful politicians would be the ones who honored this chastened new national mood.

Ronald Reagan never got the message. Which was why, when he announced his intention to challenge President Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination, those same pundits dismissed himâ€”until, amazingly, it started to look like he just might win. He was inventing the new conservative political culture we know now, in which a vision of patriotism rooted in a sense of American limits was derailed in Americaâ€™s Bicentennial year by the rise of the smiling politician from Hollywood. Against a backdrop of melodramas from the Arab oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of Americaâ€™s greatest city, The Invisible Bridge asks the question: what does it mean to believe in America? To wave a flagâ€”or to reject the glibness of the flag wavers?
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 2-16pp 4-c insert, approx 82 photos
ReleaseDate 2014-08-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476782416

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	2-16pp 4-c insert, approx 82 photos
ReleaseDate	2014-08-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476782416

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

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