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Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein
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Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consenus, 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. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for independent scholars. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

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ZNet, March 31, 2013
...these people take your schools.” They just might. They’ve beat Rahm before. They could beat him again. Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles...
Christian Science Monitor, March 26, 2013
...them clearly and sharply, we’ll owe Lewis for setting the standard,” Bazelon writes. In The Nation, historian Rick Perlstein said Lewis was unflinching in his reporting of “uncomfortable truths” and his definition of patriotism was “holding...
Chicago Now, February 8, 2013
...last night by the Nuggets, making the entire argument moot anyway. - If you're not reading historian Rick Perlstein's foray into the blogosphere I highly recommend following him.  It's fun to read a library athelete like Rick go into slice-of-life...
REASON Online, January 11, 2013
...1960 was “experienced by the old regulars as if it were an alien invasion,” in the words of Rick Perlstein in his great history of the Goldwater movement, Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus . When...
History News Network, November 12, 2012
...would also be nice, he added, if future conferences like “Recasting” included non-academic historians like Ron Chernow or Rick Perlstein, “who are both outside the academy and would get a lot from and bring a lot to” the conversation. But, as...
Agonist, September 1, 2012
...A long-awaited book on Ronald Reagan's secret alliance with the FBI Book Forum, By Rick Perlstein, Sept/Oct/Nov 2012 In January of 1965, FBI agents closing in [1] on mobster Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonanno discovered that the hellion son of an FBI...
Big News Network, June 8, 2013
...spying on American citizens by the National Security Agency ain't exactly a new thing. At The Nation, Rick Perlstein...
Albuquerque Express, June 8, 2013
...spying on American citizens by the National Security Agency ain't exactly a new thing. At The Nation, Rick Perlstein...
Birmingham Star, June 8, 2013
...spying on American citizens by the National Security Agency ain't exactly a new thing. At The Nation, Rick Perlstein...
REASON Online, June 7, 2013
...Act in June 2008, and his shift only accelerated after he took office. * Finally, in The Nation , Rick Perlstein offers some historical perspective , looking back at Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Bella Abzug's NSA investigations of 1975. This isn't the...
American Conservative, June 7, 2013
...Friedersdorf tries to get him to just admit he was wrong in the first place. Further reading: - Rick Perlstein with some comparisons to operations Shamrock and Minaret. - Glenn Greenwald et. al. on the history of the NSA - Jesse Walker has some...
Big News Network, June 6, 2013
...Chris Matthews talks with author Rick Perlstein and Prof. James Peterson about the legacy of Bobby Kennedy, and his role as the last American politician who could unite African Americans and poor blue collar whites...
NBCNews.com, June 6, 2013
...Chris Matthews talks with author Rick Perlstein and Prof. James Peterson about the legacy of Bobby Kennedy, and his role as the last American politician who could unite African Americans and poor blue collar whites. Share...