Who Quotes by Rick Perlstein

9 Who quotes by Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein’s nine short statements explore the concept of identity through a historical lens. Though the set is modest, each line hints at his measured, analytical voice.

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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.

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Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free…

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There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree…

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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue -…

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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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Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really…

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Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of…

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Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or…

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In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling…

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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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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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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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