Perlstein's

If you want to know more, just Google "e. coli conservatives", at the top of which you'll find Rick Perlstein's 1997 post where I believe he coined the term:

Food-borne illness: Failure of Capitalism 2010

If you want to know more, just Google "e. coli conservatives", at the top of which you'll find Rick Perlstein's 1997 post where I believe he coined the term:

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

But when the fat advance copy of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland hit my desk, I could tell it would be something special.

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Perlstein's book doesn't really go into this, but David Halberstam, in The Powers That Be, notes that the original Dick was a favorite of particularly the Chandlers and their Los Angeles Times.

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

His newest book, following recent bestsellers like Worse than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience (not to mention his original bestseller and one of my all-time favorite political books, the memoir Blind Ambition), is Pure Goldwater, a collection, edited with Barry Goldwater Jr., of the late senator's journal entries and correspondence, which I hope will help lead the discussion toward Perlstein's first book and the Goldwater brand of conservatism as well.

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That was the handiwork of noted leftie Richard Nixon, although, to be fair, it's not as if he really had much choice (I'm reading Perlstein's Nixonland, and he mentions that Britain was either beginning or about to begin a massive trade of dollars for gold at the time ... not that that was the sole reason for going off the gold standard, but it neither was it something to sneeze at.)

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

When it is done well --- as it is in all the writings of John McPhee, the "Letters From Europe" Jane Kramer wrote for the New Yorker in the 1980s, the travel books of Jonathan Raban, Rick Perlstein's Nixonland, and, the best of the best, J. Anthony Lukas 'Common Ground --- readers can get the sense that things happen in this world just so journalists can write about them.

Lance Mannion: 2008

An e-mailer then pointed out that Perlstein's comment was quite narrowly tailored to the issue of merit pay, which is also correct.

Money matters -- even for teachers 2010

When it is done well --- as it is in all the writings of John McPhee, the "Letters From Europe" Jane Kramer wrote for the New Yorker in the 1980s, the travel books of Jonathan Raban, Rick Perlstein's Nixonland, and, the best of the best, J. Anthony Lukas 'Common Ground --- readers can get the sense that things happen in this world just so journalists can write about them.

Journalmalists and the Hemingway Panic 2008

However, Perlstein's retreat to the one-size-fits-all Franklin-Orthogonian metaphor as the framework for explaining the events of the 1960s and assigning meaning to them sheds no new light on the period.

Peter Schwartz: Nixonland: Murder in the Cathedral 2009