In a new book, Chicago historian and Nation writer Rick Perlstein continues to chart America's rightward shift.
by Mick Dumke
For months evidence had trickled out suggesting ties between the White House and the botched Watergate burglary, and pollsters found that the public simply didn't believe President Nixon's repeated promises to get to the bottom of it. But Ronald Reagan, the aging California governor and former B-movie actor, was so out of step as to be amusing.…[ Read more ]