Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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Preface and Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
The story of the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s — a story that, until this book, had never been told. The figure at the heart of the story is, of course, Barry Goldwater, the handsome renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed the federal government, despised liberals on sight, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. But Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. Vividly and thrillingly written, Before the Storm is already recognized as an essential book about the 1960s.
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- William F. Buckley, syndicated column
- Todd Gitlin, Boston Review
- William Kristol, New York Times Book Review
- Russell Baker, New York Review of Books
- Mark Greif, Village Voice
- The Economist
- Louis Menand, New Yorker
- Glenn Garvin, Reason
- Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos
- Mark Schmitt, The American Prospect
- Matthew Price, Lingua Franca
- Richard S. Durnham, Business Week
- Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic
- William Rusher, National Review
- Alvin Fetzenberg, Weekly Standard
- Kevin Baker, Harper's
- Lew Rockwell, lewrockwell.com
- David Gordon, Mises Review
- Steve Martinovich, Enter Stage Right
- W.J. Rayment, The Conservative Monitor
- Jonathan Soffer, H-Net
The Stockticker and the Superjumbo
A majority of Americans tell pollsters they want more government intervention to reduce the gap between high- and lower-income citizens, and less than one-third consider high taxes to be a problem. Yet conservative Republicanism currently controls the political discourse. Why?
Rick Perlstein probes this central paradox of today's political scene in his penetrating pamphlet. Perlstein explains how the Democrats' obsessive short-term focus on winning "swing voters," instead of cultivating loyal party-liners, has relegated them to political stagnation. Perlstein offers a vigorous critique and far-reaching vision that is a thirty-year plan for Democratic victory.
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