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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

My debts stretch before me, numberless and interminable. In part that's because this project began aeons ago. In fact, it was conceived before I even began my first book-when I realized, reviewing Stanley Kutler's 1997 collection of Nixon White House transcripts, Abuse of Power, Abuse of Power, my hypothesis that America awarded Richard Nixon with a landslide victory in 1972 not in spite of the paranoia and dreads that produced Watergate, but in some ways because of them. my hypothesis that America awarded Richard Nixon with a landslide victory in 1972 not in spite of the paranoia and dreads that produced Watergate, but in some ways because of them.

Or maybe it was conceived when I was sixteen years old, taking advantage of my new driver's license to trek to the cavernous Renaissance Bookstore in downtown Milwaukee, burrowing in the smelly bas.e.m.e.nt where they kept the old magazines from the sixties stacked higgledy-piggledy in mountainous piles.

That said, let me begin by thanking, in addition to the Renaissance Bookstore, whose bas.e.m.e.nt I still haunt, Stanley Kutler as first among the scholars and writers who were so generous with their time, insights, and support. The list also includes Larry Berman, Sidney Blumenthal, Bill Boyarsky, Vincent Cannato, Jefferson Cowie, John Dean (that guy really knows a thing or two about Nixon), Angela Dillard, David Farber (whose paper "The Silent Majority and Talk About Revolution" somehow didn't end up in the endnotes, but which influenced every chapter of this book), Michael Flamm, David Greenberg, Maurice Isserman, Laura Kalman, Michael Kazin (whose America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s blazed an important trail), Phil Klinkner, A. J. "Jack" Langguth, Jerry Lembcke, Scott Lemieux, Steve Miller, Kim Phillips-Fein, Richard Reeves (whose blazed an important trail), Phil Klinkner, A. J. "Jack" Langguth, Jerry Lembcke, Scott Lemieux, Steve Miller, Kim Phillips-Fein, Richard Reeves (whose President Nixon: Alone in the White House President Nixon: Alone in the White House was probably my most consulted source), Jeff Shesol, Sam Tanenhaus, Elizabeth Taylor, Jeremy Varon, and Garry Wills. was probably my most consulted source), Jeff Shesol, Sam Tanenhaus, Elizabeth Taylor, Jeremy Varon, and Garry Wills.

Phil Klinkner and Maurice Isserman are in the above list, but I want to recognize them again for their extraordinary generosity in sharing carefully compiled doc.u.mentary files (Richard Jensen, Howard Park, Ryan Hayes, and Chip Berlet generously did so as well). Phil and Maurice are also among the scholars who hosted me for wonderful visits to their schools, in their case Hamilton College; others include Nelson Lichtenstein of the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, Michael Kazin of Georgetown, Matthew La.s.siter and Robert Mickey of the University of Michigan, Kenton Worcester of Marymount Manhattan College, John Tresch formerly of the Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Adam Goodheart and Ted Widmer of Washington College, the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, and Nick Salvatore and Jefferson Cowie of Cornell University. And at Princeton University Press, Sean Wilentz and Peter Dougherty afforded me the extraordinary opportunity of publishing an edition of Richard Nixon's speeches and writings. I am deeply honored and humbled that scholars such as these have seen fit to accept me into their professional company.

Those are folks I have the pleasure of knowing. There are others whose debt I must acknowledge simply because their work-sometimes work almost forty years old-has profoundly influenced me and/or was especially useful. These include Robert Sam Anson, Christian Appy, Stanley Aronowitz, Michael Barone, Michal R. Belknap, Taylor Branch, Mary Breasted, Karl E. Campbell, Dan T. Carter, Adam Cohen, Timothy Crouse, Matthew Dallek, Michael William Doyle, Mary Edsall and Thomas Byrne Edsall, Leonard Garment, David J. Garrow, Bob Greene, Mary Hershberger, Christopher Hitchens, J. Hoberman, G.o.dfrey Hodgson, Janice M. Irvine, Tamar Jacoby, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John Judis, Paul Alexander Juutilainen, Jeffrey Kimball, Allen J. Matusow, Joe McGinniss, the late Jack Newfield, Michael Newton (who published a quickie "pulp" paperback on the Black Panthers in 1980 that stands the test of time), Gerald Nicosia, Robert Novak, James Stuart Olson, Bruce Oudes, the late Ron Porambo, Randy Roberts, Richard Scammon, Jonathan Sch.e.l.l, John Schultz (whose books on the Chicago convention and the Chicago conspiracy trial are invaluable), Byron Shafer, Benjamin Wattenberg, Gordon Weil, Tom Wells, Richard J. Whalen, Tom Wicker, and Jules Witcover (this towering first-drafter of history is surely the most cited author herein)-and, of course, my two dedicatees, the late Anthony Lukas and the late Paul Cowan (and the long-defunct blog Noosphere Blues that introduced me to hero Cowan). I owe a special debt to Chris Matthews for inspiring the Orthogonian/Franklin thread that runs throughout the book, and also to Peter B. Levy for compiling in America in the Sixties-Left, Right, and Center America in the Sixties-Left, Right, and Center the perfect collection of sixties doc.u.ments. the perfect collection of sixties doc.u.ments.

The recollections of the actual actors in this drama add much, I hope, to the drama of this story. So I thank those who were forthcoming with their memories, from just answering an emailed question to tucking into a long meal while I hara.s.sed them about how and why they did or said this, that, or the other thing on a particular day thirty-five or forty years ago: Terry Anzur, Frank Aukofer, Senator Birch Bayh, William F. Buckley, Geoffrey Cowan, Rachel Cowan, Lee Edwards, Alan Eisenberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Flacks, Ryan Hayes, Tim Hill, the late Molly Ivins, Lewis Z. Koch, Jay Larkey, Jesse Lemisch, Don Luce, David Moberg, Bill Moyers, Don Oberdorfer, John O'Donnell, Leon Panetta, Heather Parton, Kevin Phillips, David Roediger, Don Rose, Marshall Sahlins, Nick Salvatore, John Schmidhauser, the late Neal Shine, and David Walther.

I live in a very special neighborhood. This book is fueled by the coffee talk of its citizens. In Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, in the shadow of the University of Chicago, a month hardly pa.s.ses when you don't meet some random citizen who knows more on your own subject of "expertise" than you do-most often at the Third World Cafe on Fifty-third Street. Among my fine Nixonland Nixonland interlocutors there have been David Berrier, Curtis Black, Heather Blair, Matt Frizzell, Bob Hodge, Aaron Lav, the late Bill Maddox, Doug Mitch.e.l.l, Adrian Montague, Christina Siun O'Connell, Erika Schmidt, Jon Stokes, and Bill and Barbara Wimsatt. Steve Chapman, Emil Jorgensen, and Amanda Cage have the misfortune of not residing in Hyde Park, but what the h.e.l.l, I'll throw them in here too. And, in between composing paragraphs, I greatly enjoyed and benefited from my sometimes contentious online colloquies with my friends Jameson Campaigne, Orrin Judd, and Chris Nunneley. interlocutors there have been David Berrier, Curtis Black, Heather Blair, Matt Frizzell, Bob Hodge, Aaron Lav, the late Bill Maddox, Doug Mitch.e.l.l, Adrian Montague, Christina Siun O'Connell, Erika Schmidt, Jon Stokes, and Bill and Barbara Wimsatt. Steve Chapman, Emil Jorgensen, and Amanda Cage have the misfortune of not residing in Hyde Park, but what the h.e.l.l, I'll throw them in here too. And, in between composing paragraphs, I greatly enjoyed and benefited from my sometimes contentious online colloquies with my friends Jameson Campaigne, Orrin Judd, and Chris Nunneley.

I was served by the professionalism of the archivists and staffs at the Chicago Museum of History (thank you, box 722!), the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago (especially Ray Gadke in microforms), the Nixon Project of the National Archives and Records Administration, the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, and Cornell University Special Collections. Special thanks, too, to Bruce Dumont and Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications for opening their archives for me as they transition between buildings. And Rick Shenkman's work fostering a community s.p.a.ce for historians at HistoryNewsNetwork.com has been marvelous.

I received generous support for the project from Dave Block, Dan Cantor, George Chauncey, Kevin Drum, Tom Frank, Frank Geier, Hank and Pat Geier, David Glenn, Michael Kazin, Mark and Carol Leff, Stanley Kutler, John Palattella, my parents Jerry and Sandi Perlstein, Aaron Swartz, the late James Weinstein, Eric Wunderman, and the White House Historical a.s.sociation. Thanks, too, to Eric Alterman and Rick MacArthur for their quiet advocacy.

When I wrote my first book, my ability to reconstruct the mental world of activists working for political change was profoundly enhanced by my work as a partic.i.p.ant-observer with the New York Working Families Party. This time, I enjoyed a privileged perch within a sui generis movement for political change and media accountability as extraordinary in its way as the rise of the CIO in the 1930s and the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition in the 1980s and '90s: the progressive blogosphere, or "netroots." Here's where the paring gets pretty ruthless, but I'd at least like to recognize John Amato, John Aravosis, Duncan Black, the late Steve Gilliard, Jane Hamsher, Ezra Klein, Howie Klein, Josh Marshall, Markos Moulitsas, Max Sawicky, Pastor Dan Schultz, Matt Stoller-and, first among equals, the one person besides my wife with whom I've enjoyed my most important intellectual partnership, Heather "Digby" Parton. Along the way, I also benefited greatly from the interval I spent covering the 2004 presidential election for the Village Voice; Village Voice; much thanks to Laura Conaway and Doug Simmons. And I'm exceptionally proud to now be working as a senior fellow with Campaign for America's Future, my new inst.i.tutional home. much thanks to Laura Conaway and Doug Simmons. And I'm exceptionally proud to now be working as a senior fellow with Campaign for America's Future, my new inst.i.tutional home.

Brilliant friends have read chunks, and more than chunks, of this ma.n.u.script in various states of undress and improved it considerably. These include Thomas Geoghegan, Christopher Hayes, Paul Krugman, Allison Xantha Miller (thanks for Punishment Park Punishment Park!), Aaron Swartz (thanks for the website!), Jason Vest (thanks for the inspired and inspiring grouchiness!), Kyle Westphal (thanks for the author photo!), and the Washington, D.C., reading group whose members include Charlie Cray, David Glenn (thanks for the Rolling Stone Rolling Stone cache!), Henry Farrell, David Frum, Scott McLemee, Krist Raab, Jim McNeill, and Rich Yeselson. cache!), Henry Farrell, David Frum, Scott McLemee, Krist Raab, Jim McNeill, and Rich Yeselson.

My professional partners in this adventure have been agent Chris Calhoun and editor Colin Harrison. I don't think I could have done better, and I thank them both so gratefully for their faith and investment in me. And Laura Wise's production team was exceptionally efficient and meticulous.

I signed the contract for this book in November 2001. It's been a long road, and I've surely missed some landmarks along the way in these acknowledgments. No way, though, of missing the continual rewards brought by the renewal of perhaps my oldest friendship, with Anil Mudholkar-though, scratch that, my richly sustaining friendship with my sister Linda Perlstein dates back far further-and with my new brother from another mother, Lewis Z. Koch.

And finally there is Kathy Geier. Kathy Geier. Kathy Geier. To conspire conspire means to "breathe together." This book is our conspiracy. means to "breathe together." This book is our conspiracy.