Nixonland is made up of four stories contained in a single novel written by Rick Perlstein. Each story was about a different campaign that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Apart from Nixonland, Perlstein also wrote another novel which is “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus”. Although he goes into detail about some of the presidents mentioned in the book, the book is not a biography. It is classified as non-fiction. The author is also a political historian and has written numerous articles for magazines across the country. He majored in history at the University of Chicago and Pearlstein later went and earned his PhD at the University of Michigan for American Culture. The book is divided into four books in one, describing the events that occurred in America during the 1960s and 1970s. Going into detail describing the disparity with the war, discrimination and how people's opinions were taken into consideration. We are first introduced to the 1965 uprising, which occurred nine months after Lyndon Johnsons triumphant victory with Barry Goldwater. This all happened a week after President Johnson officially adopted the Voting Rights Act. The following year a good number of liberals were expelled from Congress. Unfortunately, America was becoming a country as divided as it had ever been. Television began to grow in this era, where the first presidential election was broadcast in 1960 with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon, who was the Republican candidate. After Nixon lost, the book describes events through both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy. As the book progressed, the outbreak of a war between... middle of the paper... to a new level, making the younger generations understand what happened in that time period. This would be a great book for those with an interest in politics. What made the book uninteresting was its length. There were too many pages that as a reader will become boring or less entertaining. Finally, Pearlstein does not mention who the characters are, limiting himself to mentioning their names in the book. To the point where the reader is assumed to know who these people are, when maybe they don't. In conclusion, President Nixon had some ups and downs like most presidents. He was the first modern president to bring out globalized criticism and turn White House conflicts into domestic problems. If anyone is wondering where America is, or even how we got here, Nixonland will be a good place to start. “I am not a crook” President Nixon