“The Year That Broke Politics is a masterpiece of political detective work full of fresh anecdotes often anchored with just unearthed archival documents. This is a game-changing book about the politics of 1968 from a first-rate Presidential historian. Highly recommended!

-Douglas Brinkley, author of Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

“No one is writing the history of American politics with more insight and originality than Luke Nichter. In The Year That Broke Politics, Nichter offers a radical revision of the momentous election of 1968. Overturned is the conspiracy theory that Richard Nixon undermined Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam peace initiative. With meticulous research and invaluable new sources, Nichter shows that it was in fact Lyndon Johnson who undermined Hubert Humphtey's bid to succeed him -- and who came to see Nixon as preferable. This is one of those rare books that recasts a major turning point and renders a shelf-load of earlier studies obsolete.

-Niall Ferguson, author of Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist

“Combining vast research with a stylish narrative, Luke Nichter reminds us why Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., his life synonymous with the American Century, remains the best in the best and the brightest.”

-Richard Norton Smith, author of On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller

“'A nineteenth-century figure dropped into the high-level politics of the more visceral twentieth century.' Luke Nichter in his meticulously researched biography not only gets Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. right. He also brilliantly captures the mismatch between Lodge's patrician persona and the low morass -- namely America's Vietnam War -- into which he sank. A scholarly yet highly readable tour de force.”

-Niall Ferguson, author of Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist

“Luke Nichter, one of America's leading young historians, restores Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to his central place in mid-20th century U.S. history, in shaping both America's constructive internationalism and its tragic intervention in Vietnam. The Last Brahmin is an impressive achievement."

-Thomas A. Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

“A trove of undiscovered secrets…very few people have actually listened to more than a few hours of tapes...any student of the Nixon tapes should start at Nichter’s meticulous site.”

-Evan Thomas, The Atlantic

“Nichter has spent the last decade listening to almost 3,000 hours of secretly recorded White House tapes of Nixon being Nixon…that work has given him a unique perspective.”

-Del Wilber, Bloomberg

“Extremely well-researched, well-written, and carefully balanced...Luke Nichter has brilliantly filled a major gap in our understanding of the administration's foreign policy.”

-Melvin Small, Wayne State University

“Steeped in transatlantic archives and written for a general audience, Richard Nixon and Europe is a landmark contribution.”

-Irwin F. Gellman, Franklin & Marshall College

“Impressively researched and persuasively argued, Luke Nichter's book fills an important gap in the literature of the Nixon presidency...Nichter has written a fascinating narrative of Nixon's efforts.”

-Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University