After reading Nixonland written by the same author he takes you through the 70’s which was just as turmoil as the 60’s were. At least for me, starting high school in 74 by the end of the decade it was totally different. Now having a book going back through the different times of the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and then bank robbery, the different organizations that were up and running against the government, the Symbionese Liberation Army, Weather underground, the Manson trails at the beginning of the decade, civil rights was still going on, and so much more in California. The author takes you through that and Watergate, the raise of Ronald Reagan on the National scene at the Republican convention that was much closer than I think most people really knew the time, but still Ford ran against Carter only to lose. Then of course four years later with the Iran hostage crisis Regan would be President. There is a lot to take in with this book as there was with Nixonland, for me I grew up in a home that talked politics and was pro republican. My father also worked for the government and said that Nixon only got caught that other Presidents had done the same things, so I take everything with a grain of salt. This is a good book because I was brought back to a time of the 70’s that for me was still good even though there still was turmoil around. For me some of the best music came out of the 70’s, but not some of the best politicians. Still I think this book is very much worth the read, and Ronald Reagan was a smart man to take advantage of what he could and is still the only man who was President of a union, and the President of the United States. A good book.