Any Quotes by Rick Perlstein

8 Any quotes by Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein’s eight short quotes distill his historical observations into a fast‑read format. This brief set works as an easy entry point for anyone interested in his take on political history.

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I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own,…

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The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the…

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I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more…

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What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

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Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about…

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Here is a truism about the psychology of politicians: there is almost nothing so soul-definingly traumatic for them as losing an election.…

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I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only…

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In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In…

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Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would…

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Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting…

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I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

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The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of…

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The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and…

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As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better…

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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

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Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow…

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I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to…

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Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has…

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