In Search of the Real America Author:Ben J Wattenberg This is a book about why we should be optimistic about America. It was written in 1974, the year of President Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate scandal; just after our defeat at the hands of Vietnamese peasants; during the immediate aftermath of the Civil Rights era and the riots and assassinations of the 1960s. It is a book for the S... more »ilent Majority, so celebrated by President Nixon.« less