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If Only Obama's Performance Mattered More

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP Photo The last year has taught a hard lesson about the power of a determined minority to keep the majority in check. Forty senators ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, The Daily Beast,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate

What Liberals Shouldn’t Learn from Conservatives

One of the impressive things about Steven Teles’ book is that it helped orient me better about the apparent implications of my own work. When I wrote Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, the notion that, in ...

From RICK_PERLSTEIN, Crooked Timber,  27 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barry Goldwater, Jr.,  U.S. Republican Party,  Howard Dean,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

Rick, Thank you for Hosting today’s Book Salon. Henry, Thanks for filling in for Rick for the first few minutes. Thanks for the opportunity, Bev, and thanks to Rick for hosting - and for the great review. And Henry, thanks for filling in, too. Kim, how ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, Firedoglake,  19 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Barack Obama,  Roman Catholic Church,  Jerry Falwell,  C-SPAN

That Girl: The Captivity and Restoration of Patty Hearst

The story of the hostage who comes by turns to identify with the captor is one of the oldest ever told. Tales of unsullied Puritan maidens kidnapped by Indians only to end up "going native" were staples of early American literature. The Captivity and ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, AlterNet.org,  19 Jan 2009
Related Topics: F. Lee Bailey,  U.S. Congress

Philip Agee | b. 1935: Unspooked

Philip Agee’s inaugural appearance in a major newspaper was on March 7, 1968. The article was datelined Mexico City, and Agee, identified as a U.S. Embassy official attached to the Olympic Games section, was describing a cultural program “of art ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, The New York Times,  24 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Seymour Hersh,  U.S. Senate

Thomas Frank on the Bush administration: Sabotage by design

Aug. 7, 2008 | Thomas Frank is back with another hunk of dynamite. His "What's the Matter With Kansas?" monopolized political discussion for over a year when it came out in the summer of 2004. "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule" should ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, Salon,  6 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Thomas Frank,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  Jack Abramoff

Conservative Government Destroys Atlanta Like Gen. Sherman Never Could

Most our media have been far too busy following the news of what kind of fist bumps terrorists favor, and Luke Russert's exceptional poise under pressure, to notice -- well, much of anything. Least of all, the Biblically proportioned drought in one of ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, BLOG FOR OUR FUTURE, AlterNet.org,  23 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Jack Nicklaus,  Bob Barr

Part Two Of Our Nixonland Vs. The Age Of Reagan: What Did Dutch Steal From Tricky Dick?

In this TNR debate, two powerhouse political historians--Sean Wilentz, the author of The Age Of Reagan and contributing editor for The New Republic, and Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland--try to figure out which president continues to have the ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN AND SEAN WILENTZ, The New Republic,  23 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Richard Schweiker (politician),  Ronald Reagan,  Richard Nixon,  Sean Wilentz,  Republican National Committee

Are We Living In Nixonland Or The Age Of Reagan? Two Powerhouse Historians Debate.

In this TNR debate, two powerhouse political historians--Sean Wilentz, the author of The Age of Reagan and contributing editor for The New Republic, and Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland--try to figure out which president continues to have the ...

From SEAN WILENTZ AND RICK PERLSTEIN, The New Republic,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Gerald Ford

Nixon's Savage Attack on the Greatest Anti-War Movement in U.S. History

It was the idea of a Boston envelope manufacturer, the kind of figure Richard Nixon was used to approaching for political contributions: a one-day nationwide general strike against the war. Most antiwar leaders were skeptical. One who wasn't, who knew ...

From RICK PERLSTEIN, ALTERNET, AlterNet.org,  12 May 2008
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Bud Wilkinson,  John Ehrlichman,  Sam Brown,  White House

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