Think Quotes by Rick Perlstein

9 Think quotes by Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein’s nine short reflections on thinking bring his historical lens to the act of mental work. The collection is concise, yet each line carries the weight of his analytical background.

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Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new…

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Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a…

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America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the…

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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…

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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 -…

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There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that…

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Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality.…

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Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just…

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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written…

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