Rick Perlstein

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• SOURCE: Esquire
  11-21-17
  

  Rick Perlstein interviews Daniel Ellsberg about his new book and it’s scary reading

  The book: "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner."

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  11-14-17
  

  Rick Perlstein says liberals shouldn’t trust the anti-Trump Republicans

  by Rick Perlstein

  No, not even Jeff Flake.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4-21-17
  

  Rick Perlstein’s still drawing brickbats for his confession in the NYT that historians (like him) have misinterpreted modern conservatism

  by Josh Mound

  Some historians insist economics really explains Trump’s victory.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-11-17
  

  Rick Perlstein says Trump proved he (and other historians) didn’t understand the American right

  by Rick Perlstein

  In an article in the NYT Magazine he writes that the history of conservatism has to be rewritten to include "political surrealists and intellectual embarrassments, its con artists and tribunes of white rage.”

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3-28-17
  

  Rick Perlstein is asked if Trump’s like Nixon

  by Jon Wiener

  Well, they both disliked the media, but only Trump was undisciplined enough to come out and say it.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1-24-15
  

  Reagan’s bizarre defenders: Rick Perlstein, phony centrism and the strange attack on history

  by Paul Rosenberg

  The right attacked an acclaimed historian's Reagan book. What's really odd is how the sensible, smart set responded.

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• 1-13-15
  

  Review of Rick Perlstein's "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan"

  by Ron Briley

  Perlstein, seeking to make some sense of the Reagan phenomenon, offers somewhat of a new take on the culture wars of America during the 1970s. He divides the nation into skeptics or doubters, willing to interrogate national policies and institutions, and true believers who unquestionably embrace American exceptionalism.

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• SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  12-8-14
  

  Rick Perlstein hits back at a critic of his book on Reagan

  The three-time NYT bestselling author takes on Slate’s Jacob Weisberg.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  

  Rick Perlstein response to Sam Tanenhaus's complaint that he's an aggregator

  by Rick Perlstein

  "I hate criticizing reviews. I’m just honored people are paying attention. Then Sam Tanenhaus wrote this about a book, The Invisible Bridge, that I worked on for six years ...."

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• 10-20-14
  

  It's Rick Perlstein vs. Judith Stein in a Three Round Fight

  by HNN Staff

  It's not 1975's Thrilla in Manila, but as intellectual fights go, it's about as good as it gets.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-9-14
  

  Rick Perlstein explains what politicians can learn today from Reagan’s unexpected rise to power (interview)

  by Harold Pollack

  An interview with Rick Perlstein: Reagan’s improbable success, The OPEC oil embargo, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, whether President Obama underestimated the implacability of his political opponents and what Perlstein himself has learned from critical essays written about his book.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-28-14
  

  NYT interviews Rick Perlstein about his book

  "I don’t read many popular histories like the ones I write."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-12-14
  

  NYT Public Editor says Rick Perlstein was unfairly treated by ... the NYT

  by Margaret Sullivan

  "So I’m with the critics. The Times article amplified a damaging accusation of plagiarism without establishing its validity and doing so in a way that is transparent to the reader. The standard has to be higher."

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• SOURCE: Salon
  8-10-12
  

  Enough bogus plagiarism scandals! “True Detective,” Rick Perlstein and our obsession with intellectual theft

  by Laura Miller

  How right-wing smears and a feeble grasp of art launched a dangerous cultural fixation.

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• 8-5-14
  

  HNN's Ongoing Coverage of the Conservative Attack on Rick Perlstein

  by HNN Staff

  Who's saying what?  This is where readers interested in the story can turn to find out. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  7-30-14
  

  Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin. The consequences are all around us today”

  "From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9-5-13
  

  On Privatization's Cutting Edge

  by Rick Perlstein

  (Illegally) selling the police powers of a city: coming near you!

• SOURCE: The Nation
  8-7-13
  

  Rick Perlstein: ALEC's Illegal Past?

  Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008), a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications.

• SOURCE: The Nation
  7-22-13
  

  Rick Perlstein: Chicago Rising!

  Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008), a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications.On a sunny Saturday this past May, far down on the city’s black South Side where corner stores house their cashiers behind bulletproof plexiglass, about 150 activists assembled at Jesse Owens Community Academy. In just a few days, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s appointed Board of Education would vote on the largest simultaneous school closing in recent history. Owens, along with fifty-three other public schools, was on the chopping block. A recent Chicago Tribune/WGN poll found that more than 60 percent of Chicago citizens opposed the closings, and a healthy cross section of them had turned out for the first of three straight days of marches in protest.

• SOURCE: The Nation
  6-7-13
  

  Rick Perlstein: The NSA Doppelganger

  Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008), a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications.What goes around comes around.The latest news in the National Security Agency spy scandal: that the NSA has been Hoovering up your emails, documents, and connection details directly from the servers of nine US Internet companies. And that, according to NBC News, the government has been collecting records on every phone call made in the United States ever since the passage of the Patriot Act. And they have been doing so with legal immunity. Barack Obama has been helping with that, since well before he was president; and now that he is, he does what presidents do, which is to aggrandize the power of their office by whatever means at their disposal.We have been here before.