Luke A. Nichter is professor of history and James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies at Chapman University. He is the author of The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War. He lives in Orange, CA, and Bowling Green, OH.
“Both a serious work of scholarship and a romp of a book. . . . Mr.
Nichter treats conventional wisdom the way defensive linemen treat
quarterbacks, and the result is splendid.”—Barton Swaim, Wall
Street Journal, “The Best Books of 2023: Politics”
“The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths
that continue to muddy our understanding of that election year. . .
. Nichter’s book stands out for its clear, direct prose and the
scrupulous research on which it’s based.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street
Journal
“A fresh, authoritative analysis of a pivotal election
year.”—Kirkus Reviews
“It turns out that, for 56 years, we’ve been getting much of the
well-known history of [1968] wrong. . . . Nichter reveals that what
may be the most famous political contest of the 20th century could
also be its least understood.”—Wilson Shirley, National Review
“This deeply researched volume overturns much of the conventional
wisdom about the epochal election of 1968.”—Jessica T. Mathews,
Foreign Affairs
Finalist for Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant
Scholarly Work, sponsored by Texas Institute of Letters
“Luke Nichter is a brilliant scholar who knows how and when to keep
digging. He is also a clear and compelling writer. The Year That
Broke Politics is surprising, revelatory, and riveting.”—Evan
Thomas, author of Being Nixon
“The Year That Broke Politics is a masterpiece of political
detective work full of fresh anecdotes often anchored with just
unearthed archival documents. This is a game-changing book about
the politics of 1968 from a first-rate Presidential historian.
Highly recommended!”—Douglas Brinkley, author of Silent Spring
Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard
Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
“No one is writing the history of modern American politics with
more insight and originality than Luke Nichter. In The Year That
Broke Politics, Nichter offers a radical revision of the momentous
election of 1968. Overturned is the conspiracy theory that Richard
Nixon undermined Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam peace initiative. With
meticulous research and invaluable new sources, Nichter shows that
it was in fact Johnson who undermined Hubert Humphrey’s bid to
succeed him—and who came to see Nixon as preferable. This is one of
those rare books that recasts a major turning point and renders a
shelf-load of earlier studies obsolete.”—Niall Ferguson, Milbank
Family Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, and author of
Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist
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