I'm the first person to check out Rick Perlstein's Nixonland from my local library. I hope I won't be the last. It's an excellent read, or at least the first 100 pages are. The NYT review was less than enthusiastic, but then the guy who reviewed it was George Will, hardly a disinterested observer.
It certainly reminds me of the deep-seated loathing I had and still have for that man, a political opportunist of the worst possible kind. Reading about the campaigns he ran, starting with the one for Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, he causes my blood to boil all over again, and he's been dead for fourteen years.
Posted by Linkmeister at June 22, 2008 07:54 PM | TrackBack