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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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Examiner.com, January 27, 2012
...books shouldn't work, but do as a result of Cain's writing and humor. 5. Nixonland by Rick Perlstein A non-fiction entry, King says that it still manages to have the sweep of an epic novel and cites it as the best history of the 60's he...
Examiner.com, January 20, 2012
...Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwestern City Grace Pena Delgado - Author of Making the Chinese Mexican Rick Perlstein - Author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America M. William Phelps - Author of more than 20 books...
Missoulian, December 19, 2011
...have it: Staff reviews "Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus," by Rick Perlstein, Hill and Wang, 2001, call No. 973.9209 PERLSTEI Perlstein, recipient of the Los Angeles Book Prize for history for this work,...
NewsGuide.us, November 15, 2011
...In his new music video, Hugh Hefner Hates Girls, Mike Edison––former Hustler and Penthouse correspondent and editor-in-chief of Screw magazine––launches an unapologetic broadside against Mr. Playboy, Hugh Hefner. An accomplished author, musician...
PRWeb, November 15, 2011
...An accomplished author, musician and performer, Mike Edison is known for his trademark boisterous, bull-in-a-china-shop, uncensored take on pot, porn, and punk rock. As Spin Magazine praises, "Smart, filthy, and funny, Mike Edison is no ordinary author....
Onion AV Club, February 14, 2011
...Nixonland, Rick Perlstein’s mammoth survey of a political landscape polarized by one powerful, vindictive man, addresses Nixon’s followers’ habit of “heightening the contradictions.” They picked up the trick from leftist...
Onion AV Club, February 14, 2011
...Nixonland, Rick Perlstein’s mammoth survey of a political landscape polarized by one powerful, vindictive man, addresses Nixon’s followers’ habit of “heightening the contradictions.” They picked up the trick from leftist...
FishbowlLA, September 21, 2011
...very own Tina Dupuy as its managing editor, has added another formidable voice to the honor roll. Author Rick Perlstein chimes in today with his second column for the site, “Reagan’s Failed Sell of Government as Too Big.” It’s all about Prop 1, a...
U.S. Intellectual History, September 12, 2011
...last month and have been justifiably plugged in recent days around the internet (h/t, in my case, to Rick Perlstein for putting this up on his Facebook page).  The videos synchronize moving and still images from that day starting just before the first...
OUPblog, August 11, 2011
...Who said academics don’t know how to use social media? Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, has certainly proved them wrong. After reading this article by Glenn Greenwald, Robin turned to Facebook....
Crooks and Liars, August 9, 2011
...August 09, 2011 05:00 PMTYT Now: Rick Perlstein Interview and Rick Warren Tweeting for the Rich2 commentsBy Tina Dupuy Think Progress pointed out, the half-full Rick Perry prayer rally was on the same day - down the...
Kevin Drum Feed | Mother Jones, June 18, 2011
...Campaign Trail '72 , by Hunter S. Thompson Guns, Germs, and Steel , by Jared Diamond Before the Storm , by Rick Perlstein Postwar , by Tony Judt Against the Gods , by Peter Bernstein Plagues and Peoples , by William McNeill In Search of Schrödinger's...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home, June 7, 2011
...will be reading about Richard Nixon. With greater distance from Watergate, I think historians and historical writers (like Rick Perlstein) are recognizing the complexities of Nixon and the era. Most of that complexity is probably lost on the essay...