Rick Perlstein, Author . Scribner $35 (881p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4302-5
Perlstein, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
, provides a compelling account of Richard Nixon as a masterful harvester of negative energy, turning the turmoil of
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Rick Perlstein, Author Hill & Wang $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8090-2859-7
In the 1964 presidential campaign, LBJ ate Barry Goldwater for lunch and thereby, according to the pundits, stuck a fork in the heart of American conservatism. But Goldwater's politics were vindicated, Perlstein argues, by subsequent elections,...
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Rick Perlstein. Simon & Schuster, $37.50 (928p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8241-6
Perlstein (Nixonland) snuffs out any nostalgic glow in this massive and wide-ranging portrait of 1973 to 1976, from Watergate to Ronald Reagan’s challenge to Gerald Ford for the Republican presidential nomination. Full of the tragic, the infuriating,
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Rick Perlstein. Simon & Schuster, $37.50 (1,040p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9305-4
Resurgent conservatism defeats enervated liberalism in this sweeping study of the Carter administration and the rise of Ronald Reagan. Political historian Perlstein (The Invisible Bridge) concludes the saga of right-wing insurgency he started in...
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