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I've been greatly enjoying Rick Perlstein's Nixonland [http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X http://www.amazon.com/Nix

I've been greatly enjoying Rick Perlstein's Nixonland [http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-Am...], which traces the rise of modern Republicanism and is full of interesting anecdotes about this deeply weird man. I'd recommend it to anyone who isn't old enough to have survived Nixon firsthand.

DonHopkins 11y ago
I greatly enjoy Dick: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/
- vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  I'm disappointed this wasn't about Dick Tuck.
  - DonHopkins 11y ago
    Wow; just wow. Thank you for filling that gaping hole in my education with Dick Tuck [1] [2]! My new short duration personal savior [2]. Speaking of favorite ShorDurPerSavs: John Gage [4], who was Sun Microsystem's "Science Officer" and turned the Sun logo 45 degrees on its corner, had the honor of serving his country on Nixon's enemies list [5] -- a distinguished achievement that L. Ron Hubbard falsely claimed about himself! "I didn't hide what I did. I never tried to be malicious. It's just the difference between altering fortune cookies to make a candidate look funny and altering State Department cables to make it look as if a former President were a murderer." --Dick Tuck on the difference between himself and Nixon's Watergate operatives. "The people have spoken, the bastards." --Dick Tuck's concession speech following his loss in the 1966 California State Senate election. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck [2] http://hoaxes.org/tuck.html http://hoaxes.org/tuck.html [3] http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/goods/shordurpersavs/X0012_ShorDurPerSav_Lesson.html http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/goods/shordurpersavs/X0012_... [4] http://www.zdnet.com/article/suns-gage-looks-ahead/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/suns-gage-looks-ahead/ [5] http://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463 http://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463
freehunter 11y ago
I'm too young to know Nixon and I've read Nixonland at the suggestion of someone who is old enough to remember him. Very interesting read, not just about Nixon but about the Republican party as you mentioned. Not nearly as dry as I had feared.

DonHopkins 11y ago

I greatly enjoy Dick: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
I'm disappointed this wasn't about Dick Tuck.
- DonHopkins 11y ago
  Wow; just wow. Thank you for filling that gaping hole in my education with Dick Tuck [1] [2]! My new short duration personal savior [2]. Speaking of favorite ShorDurPerSavs: John Gage [4], who was Sun Microsystem's "Science Officer" and turned the Sun logo 45 degrees on its corner, had the honor of serving his country on Nixon's enemies list [5] -- a distinguished achievement that L. Ron Hubbard falsely claimed about himself! "I didn't hide what I did. I never tried to be malicious. It's just the difference between altering fortune cookies to make a candidate look funny and altering State Department cables to make it look as if a former President were a murderer." --Dick Tuck on the difference between himself and Nixon's Watergate operatives. "The people have spoken, the bastards." --Dick Tuck's concession speech following his loss in the 1966 California State Senate election. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck [2] http://hoaxes.org/tuck.html http://hoaxes.org/tuck.html [3] http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/goods/shordurpersavs/X0012_ShorDurPerSav_Lesson.html http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/goods/shordurpersavs/X0012_... [4] http://www.zdnet.com/article/suns-gage-looks-ahead/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/suns-gage-looks-ahead/ [5] http://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463 http://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463

freehunter 11y ago

I'm too young to know Nixon and I've read Nixonland at the suggestion of someone who is old enough to remember him. Very interesting read, not just about Nixon but about the Republican party as you mentioned. Not nearly as dry as I had feared.