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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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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...
Rolling Stone, May 22, 2012
...War, torture, police abuse, global plutocracy: one and indivisible, from generation to generation. Never forget. Never stop fighting. Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus and...
Highlands Today, January 19, 2013
...pauper pay for their intellectual sweat, why steal from THEM? Calling the charges against Swartz "baseless," historian Rick Perlstein writes on his blog for The Nation of the time Swartz made him a website for free. They became such good friends that...
Here & Now, January 18, 2013
...Journalist and author Rick Perlstein got an offer out of the blue, back in 2005. A young man named Aaron Swartz contacted him and offered to build him a website for free. The two...
West Central Tribune, January 18, 2013
...getting pauper pay for their intellectual sweat, why steal from THEM? Calling the charges against Swartz “baseless,” historian Rick Perlstein writes on his blog for The Nation of the time Swartz made him a website for free. They became such good...
Chicago Daily Herald, January 18, 2013
...getting pauper pay for their intellectual sweat, why steal from them? Calling the charges against Swartz baseless, historian Rick Perlstein writes on his blog for The Nation of the time Swartz made him a website for free. They became such good friends...
Robesonian, January 17, 2013
...getting pauper pay for their intellectual sweat, why steal from them? Calling the charges against Swartz “baseless,” historian Rick Perlstein writes on his blog for The Nation of the time Swartz made him a website for free. They became such good...
HeraldNet, January 17, 2013
...pauper pay for their intellectual sweat, why steal from them? Calling the charges against Swartz "baseless," historian Rick Perlstein writes on his blog for The Nation of the time Swartz made him a website for free. They became such good friends that...
Creators.com, January 17, 2013
...pauper pay for their intellectual sweat, why steal from THEM? Calling the charges against Swartz "baseless," historian Rick Perlstein writes on his blog for The Nation of the time Swartz made him a website for free. They became such good friends that...