Perlstein

Education Writers Association Public Editor Linda Perlstein is leading the crowdsourced project to build a better fifth-grade classroom.

Susan Sawyers: A 21st Century Classroom Competition Susan Sawyers 2010

I hope Steven Perlstein is not on the "Bush is Dumb" bandwagon, because this article is dumb.

Wal-Mart controversy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Rick Perlstein is a lively writer and is much more readable than, say, the somewhat plodding Taylor Branch or the even drier Rbt Dallek.

Matthew Yglesias » (Many) Books Are Too Long 2010

Jim Newton on Nixonland by Rick Perlstein: Perlstein is after something other than biography here.

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But Perlstein is more interested in cataloging political violence than in counting up muggings and break-ins and murders, and he sometimes leaves the reader to assume that the post-1950s spike in lawlessness was an epiphenomenon of urban rioting, campus protest, and right-wing vigilantism, and that liberal misgovernment had little or nothing to do with it.

E Pluribus Nixon 2008

But Perlstein is more interested in cataloging political violence than in counting up muggings and break-ins and murders, and he sometimes leaves the reader to assume that the post-1950s spike in lawlessness was an epiphenomenon of urban rioting, campus protest, and right-wing vigilantism, and that liberal misgovernment had little or nothing to do with it.

E Pluribus Nixon 2008

In these cases, and in others, Perlstein is unsparing in his critique of the political failures of mid-century liberalism; I only wish he had meditated more deeply on liberalism’s policy failures as well, and at least grappled with the possibility that voters rejected liberal governance for pragmatic reasons as well as atavistic ones.

E Pluribus Nixon 2008

In these cases, and in others, Perlstein is unsparing in his critique of the political failures of mid-century liberalism; I only wish he had meditated more deeply on liberalism’s policy failures as well, and at least grappled with the possibility that voters rejected liberal governance for pragmatic reasons as well as atavistic ones.

E Pluribus Nixon 2008

In August he called Perlstein "a political piranha with intellectual pretensions.")

Chicago Reader 2010

For a historian such as Perlstein, these are the kind of myths that cling to a generation that was galvanized during a period.

Thestar.com - Home Page 2010