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

by Rick Perlstein

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling 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 term--until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's resignation "our long national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476782423
• ISBN13: 9781476782423
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Another Great Book from Rick Perlstein

A great introduction to a young Ronald Reagan, the accidental president Gerald Ford and the tragic Jimmy Carter. Perlstein has innumerable contemporary sources and pieces each piece together perfectly to give a complete picture on a time in our history that wasn't so long ago but to someone like me born in the 1990s always seemed ignored in US History classes.