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“... You don’t know America if you don’t know the Jane Fonda cult. Or rather, the anti-Fonda cult. At places where soldiers or former soldiers congregate, there’ll be stickers of her likeness on the urinals; one is an invitation to symbolic rape: Fonda in her 1980s ‘work-out’ costume, her legs splayed, pudenda at the bulls-eye. Every night at lights-out midshipmen at the US Naval Academy cry out ‘Goodnight, bitch!’ in her honour ...”

“... on Moorer-Radford in 1974, the public and media were Watergate-weary, and the scandal fizzled out. Rick Perlstein, in The Invisible Bridge, focuses on the unintended consequences of Watergate, most notably the shortcomings of campaign finance reform: independent political organisations, it transpired, were able to raise unlimited amounts of cash so long ...”

“... the genuine police state in the nation’s midst – Mississippi – he said nothing at all,’ Rick Perlstein wrote in his definitive 2001 account of the presidential battle. Goldwater’s campaign, with cutting-edge television advertisements that highlighted disorder in America’s campuses and streets, laid the groundwork for the expansion of the ...”