Table of Contents
Introduction: Walking in Nixon's Shadow 1
Section I The Nixon: Record
Chapter 1 The Domestic Policy Pragmatist 23
Chapter 2 The Foreign Policy Visionary 55
Section II The Nixon: Influence
Chapter 3 Nixonizing the Republicans; Part One: The Southern Strategy and the Silent Majority 85
Chapter 4 Nixonizing the Democrats; Part One: Stealing the Domestic Center from Liberals 117
Chapter 5 Nixonizing the Republicans; Part Two: The Conservative Revolt 145
Chapter 6 Nixonizing the Democrats; Part Two: Vietnam, McGovern, and the End of National-Security Liberalism 175
Chapter 7 Triangulation Redux: How Bill Clinton Became a Nixon Heir 205
Chapter 8 They Didn't Listen to Nixon: Foreign Policy and Polarization under Bush and Obama 235
Section III The Nixon Legacy
Chapter 9 Watergate and the End of Bipartisan Politics 267
Chapter 10 Nixon's Final Comeback: The Postpresidency 299
Afterword: Nixon in 2016 327
Notes 335
Index 371