Stuff
Authors on the Web
Mother Jones, November 30, 2009
...is a victim who was unfairly smeared by a biased news media. On a somewhat related note, historian Rick Perlstein has done a lot of work documenting how conservative mailing lists show that : I've been on dozens of both right-wing and left-wing mailing...
Arizona State University, October 30, 2009
...and 20th century U.S. history. The conference begins with a free lecture, “The Emerging Republican Minority,” by Rick Perlstein, at 5 p.m. Nov. 12, in Life Sciences Center, E-104, on ASU’s Tempe campus. Perlstein is the author of “Before the...
Huffington Post, October 27, 2009
...Love, Rachel Gibson The Help, Kathryn Stockett Twilight, Stephanie Meyer Diary of A Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney Nixonland, Rick Perlstein The End of Your World, Adyashanti The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides The Poisonwood Bible,...
Green Valley News and Sun, July 19, 2009
...most recent edition of Newsweek magazine includes a nasty hatchet job on Sarah Palin by a guy named Rick Perlstein. The piece is presented as hard news?not an opinion column -- and basically says that the governor is a moron who is supported by...
The Onion AV Club, July 11, 2009
...to see turned into a TV series. I?ll say I?d love to see a series of Rick Perlstein?s Nixonland, running over four eight-episode seasons. The period Perlstein covers (roughly 1964 to 1972) has been covered to death in film and TV, but his sweeping...
New York Observer, June 24, 2009
...Chicago in 1988. The Baffler, which helped launch the careers of such journalists and editors as Chris Lehmann, Rick Perlstein, James Surowiecki, Tom Vanderbilt and Matt Weiland, was last published in the spring of 2007; before that, it had been lying...
Atlantic Monthly, June 22, 2009
...piece for the Nixonian style of politicking that is Pat Buchanan's stock in trade. Having just read Rick Perlstein's great book Nixonland, this argument Buchanan makes seems all too familiar (evil ivy leaguers work in cahoots with minorities to keep the...
Chicago Tribune, May 29, 2009
...Chicago, he teaches in the writing program at the New School in New York. Theresa AmatoIn Conversation with Rick Perlstein and Bruce Dold. Sunday 3 p.m. Stage / University Center/Lake Room. Theresa Amato worked as the national campaign manager for Ralph...
Inside Higher Ed, May 20, 2009
...proclaims. ?What are you unclean vermin?? In some ways, this episode prefigures the hardhats versus hippies drama that Rick Perlstein describes in his great book Nixonland. Like the conservative writers at National Review and the Republican Party...
New York Times, February 22, 2009
...it had gotten no traction. Some scholars were furious at The Times. The article was wildly irresponsible, said Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland, a study of the backlash against liberalism in the 1960s and 70s. What silliness! said Bernard A....
Notes From Planet Three, January 1, 2010
...Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon **** One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name *** Nixonland by Rick Perlstein ***** The War Within by Bob Woodward **** Bring on the Apocalypse: Essays on Self-Destruction by George Monbiot ***** What Really Sank the...
The Tin Man, December 23, 2009
...Seale. In the spring there was Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America , by Rick Perlstein. In the summer, inspired by the anniversary of Apollo 11, I read This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age , by William E....
Restless Reader, December 13, 2009
...Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of...
Big Think, November 26, 2009
...Thinking Yourself to Orgasm Barry Komisaruk Five Ways to Become Happier Today Tal Ben-Shahar Big Think Interview With Rick Perlstein Rick Perlstein America's New Engine of Growth George Soros Advice to Aspiring Novelists: Don’t Shoot Yourself John...
zenpundit.com, November 24, 2009
...the Future by Vali Nasr Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein The only thing these three tomes have in common is that the authors have a penchant for contradicting conventional wisdom, at least to a...
CJR, September 23, 2009
...11 Sep 2009 Recent Comments Dan on Drudge Has Lost His Touch...
RADAMISTO, August 31, 2009
...of pouring out millions of agit-prop books. They may have reached their peak in September, 1964, according to Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm , page 477: This kind of right-wing cultural entrepreneurship might never have been reckoned with at all had...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run, August 22, 2009
..." theorized Time 's Joe Klein. "The crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy," historian Rick Perlstein proclaimed in the Washington Post . While the commentariat's condescension is almost comical, the whole evil-or-stupid explanation...
In These Times, June 2, 2009
...to more than a dozen magazines and my RSS reader is overloaded. Lately, I’ve been religiously reading Rick Perlstein – though maybe that just seems religious because Nixonland is longer than the Bible. It may hurt my street cred, but I still love The...
LeftWord: The Best Liberal Blog Posts, April 25, 2009
...FDL Book Salon Welcomes Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America post from Firedoglake on 25 April 2009 05:00:54 PM. © Firedoglake Greetings, FDL book salon members...
Band of Thebes, April 22, 2009
...on the Ass . I asked him what he reads when not making music and he said Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, and Robert Fisk's mammoth books on the Middle East...
Firedoglake, March 29, 2009
...succeeded in changing it. It is reminiscent of other books on the rise of the right, such as Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm , but concentrates on a much more specialized group of actors. Rightwing non-profit law firms have succeeded, at least in part,...
Shelfari, February 23, 2009
...the list in November): The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg Nixonland by Rick Perlstein The Forever War by Dexter Filkins The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski The Likeness by Tana French Serena by...
Shelfari, February 23, 2009
...the list in November): The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg Nixonland by Rick Perlstein The Forever War by Dexter Filkins The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski The Likeness by Tana French Serena by...
