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and twice told Holocaust survivors that he had personally helped liberate concentration camps in World War II. He was fond of recalling that when he was growing up, America “didn’t even know it had a racial problem.” Reagan fabricated the world as he wanted to see it, in ways unprecedented at the time but which have become all too familiar in years since.
To his credit, Perlstein doesn’t lean too hard on the Trump comparison, probably at the expense of selling some morealso focuses on another battleground of evangelical politics in the 1970s: schools. In the aftermath of court-ordered integration, all-white private schools began popping up around the American South, colloquially known as “that private schools were prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race and would lose tax-exempt status for doing so.
Nixon is also a truly fascinating main character, steeped in agony and irony and pathos. He may have been the most purely villainous president in American history, but as a subject, Nixon hasReagan doesn’t, really. He was a conduit of pure ideology, a convincing simulation of humanity. He was everything that people hate about actors and everything that they love about them as well.
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