Transcriptionist” and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Perlstein discusses “The Invisible Bridge” Alexandra Alter has notes from the field Jan Swafford talks about “Beethoven” Amy Rowland discusses “The It’s his insights that are the news, and have been since his first book, “Before the Storm: Barry GoldwaterĪnd the Unmaking of the American Consensus” (2001), which was sound enough to persuade conservative readers that a writer with liberal sympathies could write a revealing and balanced history of his ideological Writers who did the investigative spade work before him. Perlstein is an obsessive researcher who often relies (and fully credits) the Just as deftly, he taps into the consciousness of bicentennial America. Caro is a relentless reporter who tracks down primary sources, human and otherwise. Perlstein examines the skeletons in the Reagan, Ford and Carter closets, finds remarkable overlooked details and perfectly captures the dead-heat drama of the Republican convention.

In reaction to the New Deal and Great Society. Perlstein’s focus is the modern conservative movement that rose Caro’s protagonist is our last unabashedly liberal president. Writers’ chosen turfs and techniques are antithetical, however. Caro’s promised final installment will pick up roughly where Perlstein’s first ends, with Johnson’s 1964 landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater.

You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river.” The book is the third volume in a project that is as ambitious in its way as Robert Caro’s Clarence Page contributed from the audience. “The Invisible Bridge” takes its title from a bit of cynical political advice bestowed on Nixon by Nikita Khrushchev: “If the people believe there’s an imaginary river out there, youĭon’t tell them there’s no river there. He spoke with Rick Perlstein, author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Perlstein’s seriesĪbout the rise of the modern conservative movement in America. In The New York Times Book Review, Frank Rich reviews Rick Perlstein’s “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan,” the third panoramic volume in Mr.

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