But because a liberal said it, Perlstein was widely praised and even hailed as the “Herodotus of the American Century.” There was an important difference between Perlstein and conservatives as to Goldwater’s end game. This was not an original insight-I and other conservatives had already written that Goldwater had laid the political foundation for Reagan’s triumphs in 19. But I’m going to lose it my way.” –EdwardsĪ central theme of Before the Storm is that the liberal establishment, especially its pundits and journalists, failed to understand that the 1964 Goldwater candidacy was not the end but the beginning of a tectonic shift in American politics from liberalism to conservatism. Goldwater to Mardian: “You go back and tell your crowd that I’m going to lose this election.

But I’m going to lose it my way.”-Perlstein Goldwater to political aide Robert Mardian : “You go back and tell your crowd that I’m going to lose this election. And there were times when he lifted portions of my Goldwater biography without citing my work. He usually quoted me and other conservatives accurately but not always. I first met Perlstein more than a decade ago when he was researching his book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.

It is always useful to know what the Other Side is doing, and Perlstein is a committed liberal journalist who writes for the far left The Nation and was a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future that describes itself as “the strategy center for the progressive movement.” No sooner was it published than it was greeted with charges of plagiarism, egregious misstatements, and “invisible” footnotes. OL221605W Page_number_confidence 96.38 Pages 710 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200318205925 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 620 Scandate 20200317070734 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781568584126 Tts_version 3.Not since Edmund Morris’s bizarre semi-fictional biography of Ronald Reagan has there been such a deeply disappointing Reagan book as Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:00:59 Boxid IA1796908 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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