Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan ; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America , a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus , which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of...See more
Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan ; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America , a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus , which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of The New York Times , The Washington Post , and the Chicago Tribune . His essays and book reviews have been published in The New Yorker , The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Nation , The Village Voice , and Slate , among others. A contributing editor and board member of In These Times magazine, he lives in Chicago. See less
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Rick Perlstein book reviews
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
worth reading
by pollkatz, Mar 15, 2012
-- if you're interested in the dark side of the 60s and the rise of the current version of the Republicans. Essentially, Perlstein's Nixonland, which is better, picks up where this book leaves off. Read More
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Fascinating and haunting
by greebs, Sep 15, 2008
Rick Perlstein has written a phenomenal account of, largely, the years between 1964 and 1972. Why those years? Because in '64, LBJ won the election with about 62% of the vote, a crushing margin. Just ... Read More
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Hard to put down
by Arabella, Apr 14, 2009
Before the Storm is written in a fluid, suspenseful manner that makes it hard to put down. I just couldn't stop reading. I read it during a week of illness and it actually made the week almost ... Read More