I've been reading Rick Perlstein's Nixonland, a best-selling history of the 1960s. President Richard Nixon is the focal point, but the book is more about the politics of the time than Tricky Dick. I was just a tike in the second half of the 1960s, and though I was later familiar with a lot of the people and events of the time, I never had a specific feel for the time.Although Perlstein chronicles the many excesses of the New Left, he has been and remains a student of the American Right. Today,