Verkkomuch of the action in rick perlstein’s massive tome, the invisible bridge: The fall of nixon and the rise of reagan, occurs during this brief but critical and often. Verkkothe 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. Verkkothis book extends perlstein’s saga of the american right, the earlier instalments being before the storm (2001), on barry goldwater’s races of 1960 and. The fall of nixon and the rise of reagan was published on december 1, 2014 in the journal the forum (volume 12,. Verkkothis group was a product of 1960s protest movements, especially the widespread disillusionment with the war in southeast asia. Opposite them was a.
