Rick Perlstein is a historian and chronicler of American conservativism. He is the author of award-winning, New York Times bestsellers “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan,” “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America” and “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.” His newest book, “Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980” (Simon & Schuster), traces how social and political events allowed a man with no obvious political future to alter the path of American conservatism.
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