5/27/2023 0 Comments Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Ag... by David A.J. Richards![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to his in-depth archival research, Mason is able to pull back the curtain and reveal the calculations made and strategies developed by Nixon and his team to expand the president's 1968 plurality, cut into traditional Democratic constituencies, and build a new electoral coalition for his reelection bid in 1972. This book is a well-executed study of a pivotal presidency at an important crossroads in modern American political development. In his own quest to narrate the Nixon story in an innovative way, Mason unquestionably succeeds. Where other studies of Nixon's presidency may discount Nixon's attempts to build a lasting electoral coalition (presumably because his majority-building project collapsed utterly in the face of Watergate), Mason insists on bringing the question of what Nixon did and how he did it front and center. ![]() In this welcome contribution to the history of Richard Nixon's complex presidency, Robert Mason directs our attention to Nixon's multifaceted efforts to activate the "silent majority" and create an enduring partisan electoral realignment. ![]()
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