Word: perlstein
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...first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Rick Perlstein offers an intriguing thesis: While Goldwater may have been the biggest popular-vote loser in American presidential-race history, the movement which garnered him the 1964 Republican nomination laid the groundwork for the conservative revolution that led to the election of Ronald Reagan 16 years later, signaling the retreat of the modern welfare state as we know...
...Perlstein is a talented political writer—one whose work has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Slate and The Village Voice, among others—and his seductively colorful writing style is in full form here. The book begins with tantalizing, epic promise. From the wreckage of Goldwater’s election disaster, Perlstein tells how 10 new conservative Republican governors were elected a mere two years later, eventually leading to Reagan’s 1980 triumph and Bill Clinton’s adoption of many of Reagan’s political positions in 1995?...