![]() ![]() Which was why, when he announced his intention to challenge President Ford for the 1976 Republican nomination, those same pundits dismissed him-until, amazingly, it started to look like he just might win. And as Americans began thinking about their nation in a new way-as one more nation among nations, no more providential than any other-the pundits declared that from now on successful politicians would be the ones who honored this chastened new national mood. ![]() The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives. The next president declared upon Nixon’s resignation “our long national nightmare is over”-but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The 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. ![]()
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