![]() ![]() When it comes to researching and analyzing the events that led up the violent confrontation between the police and the demonstrators, however, he contents himself with quoting and paraphrasing from a handful of newspaper articles and a few books, leaning heavily on John Schultz’s No One Was Killed. Perlstein can (courtesy of the Museum of Television and Radio) watch NBC’s coverage of the Democratic convention in Chicago on August 28, 1968, and, transcribing the voiceovers and commentary, and depicting the visuals on the screen, put together a highly readable and vivid chapter. I have now read two-thirds of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland (that is, up to the point where the book describes the Kent State shootings and aftermath) and can confirm that this historian’s narrative skills continue to be stronger than his primary research, which where this book is concerned, is comparatively skimpy. ![]()
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