The Year That Broke Politics
Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968

What secret did world famous evangelist Billy Graham, Richard M. Nixon and Lyndon Baines Johnson share, but hide from the world in 1968? While it may sound like the premise for an unlikely summer political thriller, this is only one of the many surprises Professor Luke Nichter reveals for the first......more

Just finished: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. A paradigm changer!!!! Nichter argues that Nixon won in 1968 because he and Nixon made a deal. Nixon would support Johnson's policies regarding Vietnam and support The Great Society. Nixon also promised not to criticize Johnson directly. Johnso......more

Fascinating book about the 1968 presidential election. Nichter spends most of the book showing how different events in the 1960s led up to this unique election. Also it was interesting to learn about Billy Graham’s involvement in the Democratic and Republican camps. I didn’t know too much about Viet......more

How do you take the story of a major political event that is seemingly known through and through and upend all that we thought we knew and shed new light on the story revealing far greater detail and correcting false assumptions at the same time? Research. Through diligent research, and by reaching......more

This book was interesting and trying at the same time. The author, who is a professor of history at Chapman University, is an authority on Nixon. He does some interesting discussions of many of the major figures around the election in 1968 (Nixon, Humphrey, Johnson, Wallace). But after reading the b......more