Constructing Nixon's Majority

Name: Constructing Nixon's Majority
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Winning Rhetoric in the Presidential Election of 1972

By: Frank Kusch

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This bookreframes the 1972 election as a masterclass in political messaging, strategy, and the manipulation of national divisions. Drawing on extensive archival research, it reveals how Nixon's campaign reshaped American conservatism, laying the groundwork for modern political polarization.

Frank Kusch argues that Nixon's landslide was the product of a carefully orchestrated campaign that capitalized on the fears of a conservative electorate uneasy with the social upheavals of the 1960s. By presenting Nixon as a steady leader amid turmoil, his campaign forged a coalition defined less by polices it championed than conditions it opposed-radicalism, protest, and chaos.