Books by Rick Perlstein
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review 1: A great achievement and a thrilling book to read. What an era - America veers close to national vegetarianism as the price of meat skyrockets in 1973! Jimmy Carter was not that all that he pretended (pretends?) to be! The sad triumph of Hank Aaron! Patty 'Tania' Hearst! Nascent t...
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review 1: There is the Great Man Theory of history and there is Social (bottom up) Theory history. Rick Perlstein gives us both with Nixonland . He tells the story of how America seemed in the middle of a ‘liberal consensus’ with the Johnson landslide in 1964, and how the tide changed into...