Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
That is the query Barron YoungSmith, an intern at The New Republic, poses at the magazine’s website this week. (YoungSmith is a 2006 Brown University graduate, incidentally. And some people were amazed that 39-year-old Rick Perlstein was fascinated enough by...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Countering Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, RN biographer Conrad Black argues that RN won in 1972 not because he was a good polarizer but because he was a good President: It is not mentioned that only Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in more...
Jun 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
John Mitchell biographer James Rosen on a Nixon benchmark to which Sen. McCain may hope to attain: [I]t was…Nixon, that most complex psychological character, who earned more of the black vote — 32% in his 1960 loss to John F. Kennedy — than any GOP nominee of...
Jun 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Now that the general election campaign has started, there is a great deal of talk about the GOP’s “Southern Strategy.” Many accounts say that the strategy was responsible for electing Nixon in 1968 and thus became the template for Republican...
Jun 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Somewhere up there, perhaps, Tim Russert is sending the word out to the George Clinton who did not sing “dogs of the world unite,” John C. Calhoun, Thomas A. Hendricks, Adlai E. Stevenson I, and Charles W. Fairbanks to appear on next Sunday’s Meet...
