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About Rick Perlstein
American historian, writer and journalist
Rick Perlstein is an American historian, writer, and journalist known for his accounts of the American conservative movement after the 1960s. He has 117 quotes on the site. He is the author of five bestselling books. His first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Politico has described him as a careful chronicler of modern conservatism.
More from Rick Perlstein (117 quotes) →Keep reading Rick Perlstein
- “We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is in…”Rick Perlstein
- “Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety…”Rick Perlstein
- “It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own…”Rick Perlstein
- “Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.”Rick Perlstein
Humility: more sayings
- “If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in…”Alex Gibney
- “Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place,…”Andrew Murray
- “If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.”T.F. Hodge
Explore Leadership
- “As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.”Jennifer Hyman
- “As long you are still living, you can achieve far more than you could ever imagined”Benjamin Suulola
- “Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine a…”Justin Trudeau
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Books by Rick Perlstein
The invisible bridge
2014
Before the storm
2001