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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.
Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American…
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1 author picked Reaganland as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In November of 1976, in my senior year of high school, Jimmy Carter was elected president. In November 1980, in my senior year of college, Ronald Reagan was elected. Thus my first four years as a political “adult” is precisely the time frame of this book.
The author captures and rekindles my memories of those years. Certainly I can now recall why I was a big Jimmy Carter fan, a man who was decent, compassionate and who saw nuance. And I agreed whole heartedly with his diagnosis of the root causes of the nation’s crisis of culture, which lead to…
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