15. Nixon and the Silent Majority
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. What was the "Silent Majority"?
2. What was Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and how far was it successful?

Required Reading
Alan Brinkley, "The Problem of American Conservatism", American Historical Review 99: 2 (1994): 409-429
*Michael Heale, "The Politics of Reaction: From Johnson to Nixon," from Heale, The Sixties in America: History, Politics and Protest (2001)
James Patterson, Grand Expectations, chapter 23

Further Reading
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING BOOKS ON AMERICAN POLITICS EVER WRITTEN]
Robert Mason,Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004)
David Farber, "The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution," in Farber, ed., The Sixties, pp. 291-316
Jonathan Rieder, "The Rise of the 'Silent Majority'" in Fraser & Gerstle, eds, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order
Obituary of Richard Nixon from the New York Times, 1994

Primary sources
Nixon's " Silent Majority" Speech, 1969
Extracts from the Watergate hearings: Nixon's "enemies list"
Washington Post on-line archive of Watergate coverage