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Rick Perlstein

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• Originally published 01/26/2015

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

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

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• Originally published 01/13/2015

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

  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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• Originally published 12/16/2014

  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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• Originally published 10/20/2014

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

  "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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• Originally published 10/20/2014

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

  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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• Originally published 09/10/2014

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

  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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• Originally published 08/30/2014

  NYT interviews Rick Perlstein about his book

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

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• Originally published 08/12/2014

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

  "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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• Originally published 08/11/2014

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

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

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• Originally published 08/05/2014

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

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

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• Originally published 08/01/2014

  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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• Originally published 09/05/2013

  On Privatization's Cutting Edge

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

• Originally published 08/08/2013

  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.

• Originally published 07/09/2013

  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.

• Originally published 06/10/2013

  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.

• Originally published 05/02/2013

  Rick Perlstein: Times Square Blues

  Rick Perlstein is the author of Nixonland.I was in New York last week, and one of the people I visited with was my friend Mike Edison, whose qualifications for the job (being my friend, I mean, and for being your friend, too) are listed on the résumé that doubles as the title of his 2008 memoir: I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. The notorious magazines include stoner rag High Times, which he published, and the only-in-New-York Bible of repulsiveness known as Screw, which Edison helped take over upon the retirement of Al Goldstein. I met Mike after he sent me his most recent book, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!, a history of pornography, to blurb. I did so from the bottom of my heart: “Mike Edison can go toe to toe with some of the best writers of the (old) New Journalism. This is foul-mouthed popular history at its most entertaining. Plenty smart, too—and also, strange to say, poignant and loving.” (Hugh Hefner is the villain. I liked that.)

• Originally published 03/26/2013

  Rick Perlstein: Anthony Lewis, 1927–2013

  Rick Perlstein is the author of "Nixonland" and several other books.

• Originally published 01/16/2013

  Rick Perlstein: Our Obama Bargain

  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).We have on our hands a President Groundhog Day. Tom Tomorrow nails it in this recent cartoon, as he so often does: regularly, and regularly and regularly, Obama initiates a negotiation; finds his negotiating partner maneuvering him into an absurd impasse; then “negotiates” his way out of a crisis with a settlement deferring reckoning (in the former of further negotiation) to some specified time time in the future, at which point he somehow imagines negotiation will finally, at long last, work—at which point the next precipice arrives, and he lets his negotiating partners defer the reckoning once more....

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• Originally published 12/16/2013

  The History of Composting in America

  Or, why historians need to get busy *now* writing the history of composting.