They were trying to make the country better
Because history tends to repeat itself and these stories echo events in real life.
Nixon's New Federalism was focused on giving more power to the state governments.
Nixon believed that ever since the Great Deal, implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the federal government had too much control over the states and how they spent their money. In his New Federalism program, Nixon advocated for a smaller federal government by giving state governments grants of money and letting them decide how to use it.
The literature was connected through common themes that they explored that were mostly romantic and based around their love for nature and mysticism and things like that. The authors were connected through a club that they had where they met and talked about ideas and their writing and similar things.
