Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New MajorityIn recent years historians have paid substantial attention to the origins of modern political conservatism and the record of the Nixon administration in building a Republican majority in the late twentieth century. In Richard Nixon and the Quest for a |
Contents
THE FORGOTTEN AMERICANS The Republican Quest for a Majority in the 1960s | |
AMERICA AND THE SILENT MAJORITY Issues 19691970 | 27 |
REALIGNMENT GOING ON The Redefintion of the Republican Party 1970 | 67 |
AMERICAN REVOLUTION Issues 19701972 | 103 |
PRESIDENT NIXON FOR PRESIDENT The Rejection of the Republican Party 1972 | 151 |
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