Jun 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This morning Nixonland author Rick Perlstein replies to The Age Of Reagan author Sean Wilentz at The New Republic’s site, and what he has to say will take Roger Stone’s mind off the question of which shirt to wear tomorrow, if only for a moment. The...
Jun 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Some weeks ago a commenter asked when I was going to complete my assessment of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. Rest assured it will come in a few days. In the meantime here is an interview with Perlstein from the new issue of the libertarian journal Reason,...
Jun 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the next day or so I’ll put up a post concerning dollars – that is to say, the estimated $300 million that Sen. Barack Obama may raise for his campaign, now that he has reversed his previous position and become the first major-party presidential...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
On the day that changed everything, September 11, 2001, then New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani seized the moment and guided that most unmanageable of all municipalities through its unsurpassed dark day. When the mayor reached the point of exhaustion in the early...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Republicans are comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter. Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy adviser, claims that Carter does not deserve blame for the malaise of the late 1970s. He says: “What led to the economic problems was the built-in inflation,...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
That is the query Barron YoungSmith, an intern at The New Republic, poses at the magazine’s website this week. (YoungSmith is a 2006 Brown University graduate, incidentally. And some people were amazed that 39-year-old Rick Perlstein was fascinated enough by...
