articles (Rick Perlstein)

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by Perlstein

All Aboard the McCain Express, The Nation, 4/21/08
"Dust Up" exchange: Election Year Liberalism, Los Angeles Times Online, 3/10-3/14/2008
Not in His Father's Footsteps, Los Angeles Times, 2/10/2008
Getting Past the '60s? It's Not Going to Happen, Washington Post, 2/3/2008
Smirk of the Union, Alternet, 1/29/2008
The Myths of McGovern, Democracy, Winter 2008
The Best Wars of their Lives, The Nation, 10/15/07
What's the Matter With College?, The New York Times Magazine, 9/30/07
"Class President" (review of Jean Edward Smith's FDR), Chicago Tribune, 9/1/07
Rove's Off the White House Payroll—Will That Free Him to Do Even Dirtier Tricks?, Alternet, 8/13/2007
Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?, The Nation (cover story), 7/09/07
Chinese Mirrors, The Nation, 6/26/07
The Flaw of Averages: How polls obscure America’s many social patchworks, Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2007
Unconscious of a Conservative: How conservative pundits smear the democrats, The New Republic Online, 3/21/07
Tribal Warfare: Mitt Romney's symbolic appeals to conservative republicans, The New Republican Online, 2/21/2007
Who's Afraid of Peter Boyle?, In These Times, 2/2007
Reality Bytes: Bloggers upstage the mainstream press yet again, The New Republic Online, 2/07/2007
The Operator (review of What a Party!, by Terry McAuliffe), New York Times Book Review, 2/04/2007
Legend of the Fall: Are congressional liberals to blame for Vietnam?, The New Republican Online, 1/25/2007
Why Democrats Can Stop the War, Salon, 1/24/2007
Day of Reckoning: Conservatives still don't get Martin Luther King, The New Republic Online, 1/10/2007 and Chicago Sun-Times, 1/15/2007
Christian Empire (review of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, by Chris Hedges), New York Times Book Review, 1/07/2007
Fenced Out, University of Chicago Magazine, January/February 2007
General Electric Kool-Aid: The untold story of Ronald Reagan's political conversion, The New Republic Online, 1/04/2007
Heck-of-a-job Meyers?, The Nation Online, 1/03/2007
View to a Kill: The NRA's new cause celebre, The New Republic Online, 12/12/2006
Southern Discomfort: The unspoken truth about the GOP, The New Republic Online, 11/29/2006
Look Back in Anger: The Democrats won, but they shouldn't for a second let victory cause them to forget the Republicans' dirty tricks operation., The American Prospect Online, 11/10/2006
Plan of Attack: Who Deserves Credit for the Democratic Comeback?, The New Republic Online, 11/08/2006
Blumenthal's First Draft of History, In These Times, 11/07/2006
The Unrealist: Dr. Kissinger's Therapy, The New Republic, 11/06/2006
Lieberman's Nixonian traits, Connecticut Journal Inquirer, 11/03/2006
Democrats can win House, but can they keep it?, Chicago Tribune, 10/27/2006
Woodward's Belated Scoop: Bush Lied About Iraq!, New York Observer, 10/23/2006
Thunder on the Right: The Roots of Conservative Victory in thte 1960s, OAH Magazine of History, 10/06
Mass Martyr: What Is Conservative Culture?, The New Republic, 07/03/2006
'I Didn't Like Nixon Until Watergate': The Conservative Movement Now, Huffington Post, 12/05/05
Operation Barbarella, London Review of Books, 11/17/05
The Op-Ed Which Wasn't Run, Eschaton, 09/27/05
Unfucking the Donkey, Village Voice, 07/28/05
A Socialist in the Age of Triangulation, In These Times, 07/06/05
The Book Club, The American Prospect, 06/06/2005
Party Cannibals, The Nation, 02/07/05
The Eve of Destruction, Village Voice, 01/18/05
Rick Perlstein was asked to write about his favorite nonfiction book..., Maudnewton.com, 01/17/05
The Case of the Ohio Recount, Village Voice, 12/21/04
Conviction Politics, The American Prospect, 12/06/04
It's The Wealth, Stupid: Class warfare swing the 2004 election, Village Voice, 11/09/04
Where's the Party?: An Ideas forum on what the reelection of George W. Bush means for the Democrats, Boston Globe, 11/07/04
It's Mourning in America, Village Voice, 11/03/04
Review of Hugh Hewitt, If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat: Crushing the Democrats In Every Election and Why Your Life Depends On It, Village Voice Operation Eagle Eye blog, 11/01/04
Sucking Democracy Dry: Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way, Village Voice, 10/19/04
Passionate Conservatism (on the 2004 Republican National Convention), 8/31/04
Get Mad. Act Out. Re-Elect George Bush., Village Voice, 08/24/04
The End of Republican Rule, Village Voice, 08/03/04
If Journalists Listened to Media Scholars..., University of Chicago Magazine, 8/04
The Church of Bush, Village Voice, 07/20/04
Defending What's The Matter With Kansas?, New York Times Book Review, 07/04/04
The Reagan Legacy, Salon, 06/04/04
Second Read: Rick Perlstein on The Tribes of America, Columbia Journalism Review, 06/04
The Jesus Landing Pad, Village Voice, 05/18/04
The Divine Calm of George W. Bush, Village Voice, 05/03/04
[An Open Letter to Alan Brinkley][ol], HNN, 05/03/04
The jobs of the Future Are a Thing of the Past: Outsourcing and the Sad Little Movement to Stop It, Village Voice, 3/30/2004
Flight of the Bumblebee, Village Voice, 02/04/04
A New New Deal, New York Times Book Review, 01/25/04
Last Copter out of Baghdad, Village Voice, 01/14/04
Attention Wal-Mart Voters, Village Voice, 12/03/03
Day of the Spoiler: Inside Joe Lieberman's Kamikaze Campaign, Village Voice, 10/22/03
Patriot Act?, The American Prospect, 10/15/03
Come Out Fighting, Village Voice, 09/17/03
Orange County Anguish, _Village Voice, 9/3/03
The Fringe on Top, Village Voice, 08/13/03
Moment of Decision (profile of George Chauncey), University of Chicago Magazine, 08/03
Howard Dean's Youth Machine, Mother Jones, 07/16/03
What Gay Studies Taught The Court, Washington Post, 07/13/03
A Golden Age that Never Was [PDF], Dissent, Spring 2003
Eyes Right: Conservatives Are Winning the Media War; How Do They Do It?, CJR, 03/03
The 'Safety' Trap, Mother Jones, 11/11/02
The Historical Present, The American Prospect, 07/15/02
A Surrender to Trust, Mother Jones 07/02
"Know Your Enemy: Right-Wing Extremism and the Politics of Our Time", Appeal To Reason: 25 Years of In These Times (Craig Aaron, ed.), 06/16/2002
The Arrogance and the Ectasy (about Doris Kearns Goodwin), Voice Literary Supplement, 05/02
The Two Faces of Ralph, Village Voice, January 16, 2002
The Media Muzzled: Vietnam and Afghanistan Show why LImiting Press Access to War is Unpatriotic, Village Voice, 12/12/01
Ms. Magazine: Feminist Fighter, Columbia Journalism Review, 11/01
Tricky Bic, New York TImes Book Review, 10/14/01
Retiring, but Not Shy; Once, a Politician Ahead of His Time, New York Times, 08/26/01
A Look at the Architects of America's Red Scare, New York Times, 08/20/01
Kissinger of Death, Village Voice, 05/25/01
Inside Publishing: Go North, Young Man, Lingua Franca, 05/01
Pundits Who Predict The Future Are Always Wrong, The Nation, 04/23/01
Global Harming, Village Voice, 3/14/01
Thinkers in Need of Publishers, New York Times, 01/22/02
Trial Heat, The American Prospect, 01/09/01
Fringe Benefits, In These Times, 01/08/01
Casting Our Votes, and How We Won the Right, Washington Post, 11/06/00
The TV Campaign, The American Prospect, 11/06/00
As Reviewed on Amazon, The American Prospect, 11/06/00
Review of Greenspan, Village Voice, 10/00
Buying Unhappiness, Village Voice, 09/00
When Smart Kids Attack, Feed, 05/19/00
Up, Up and Away (review of Way Out There in the Blue), In These Times, 05/01/00
Michael Kammen: The Rise and Fall of Pop Culture, Publishers Weekly, 08/02/99
Truth in Eulogizing, Civilization, 06/99
Ted Does the Cold War, In These Times, 10/18/98
The Unraveling: The tale of the new Nixon tapes, Slate, 11/26/97
Boston vs. Austin: The political rivalry that split the nation, Slate, 11/05/97
Leisure World, Lingua Franca, 11/97
The Politics of American Gothic, New Leader, 04/07/97
Getting Real: Can homo economicus survive in the laboratory?, Lingua Franca, 04/97
Just the Artifacts: A cultural history of cultural histories, Slate, 03/13/97
Reviewers reviewed, Slate, 12/05/96
Reviewers reviewed, Slate, 11/27/96
The Prophet Motive: Daniel Bell's take on capitalism, 20 years later, Slate, 11/20/96
Labor of Love: Can labor and academia get along?, Feed, 10/23/96
Who Owns The Sixties? The opening of a scholarly generation gap, Lingua Franca, 05/96
Review of Microserfs, The Nation, 06/26/95