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Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. His next book, Nixonland, is due out in May.

Currently

  • All Aboard the McCain Express

    April 3, 2008

    The conservative noise machine is coming around to support him--if it can keep its stories straight.

2007

  • The Best Wars of Their Lives

    September 27, 2007

    A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.

  • Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?

    June 21, 2007

    New polling data shows that the majority of Americans are leaning liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?

  • Chinese Mirrors

    June 7, 2007

    China has become like Israel: No matter the party, no matter the leader, the US government will defend its actions.

  • Heck-of -a-Job Myers?

    January 3, 2007

    The ICE chief's comments about immigration and unions raise troubling questions. Congress should seek answers.

2005

2001

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