Before the Storm, Rick Perlstein
Before the Storm, Rick Perlstein
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Before the Storm
Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Author: Rick Perlstein

Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Unabridged: 28 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2017

Synopsis

Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. 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 written, Before the Storm is an essential book about the 1960s.

About Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. His essays and book reviews have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Slate, among others. A contributing editor and board member of In These Times magazine, he lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maru

UPDATE: Rick Perlstein has written an outstanding article, appearing top of the front page of the New York Times: I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved me Wrong. The article reads as Rick Perlstein's mea culpa for underestimating extremism in the development of today's conservative......more

Goodreads review by A.J.

In honor of Michelle Bachman accidentally comparing herself to John Wayne Gacy I thought I'd post a quick review. I read this last January and since then I can't count how many times I've seen the news or heard snippets of conversation and thought to myself, "Jesus Christ, this reminds me of the Per......more

Goodreads review by Christopher

Rick Perlstein’s first book, and still his best, Before the Storm revisits the launch of the modern conservative movement. Perlstein centers his narrative on Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Senator whose small government principles made him an outlier in postwar consensus politics. Never particularly a......more

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