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Rick Perlstein's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “The Invisible Bridge,” would like Chekhov to write his life story. “Sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself, even when he’s ostensibly writing about Russian ladies over a hundred years ago.”

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By the Book: Rick Perlstein (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-08-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Rendezvous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
Rendezvous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
Craig Shirley · Buy on Amazon
"The book that's been most monopolizing my attentions is the massive chronicle by the conservative movement activist Craig Shirley."
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A Woman's Kingdom
Anton Chekhov · Buy on Amazon
"His masterful long short story A Woman's Kingdom precisely exemplifies what I'm aiming to accomplish in my history writing."
A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor
Nelson Lichtenstein · Buy on Amazon
"One abandoned idea documented in his most recent book, A Contest of Ideas, haunts me."
Cover of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Corey Robin · Buy on Amazon
"His book The Reactionary Mind provides the most convincing account about what right-wing habits of mind are ultimately all about."
Cover of PR as in President
PR as in President
Victor Gold · Buy on Amazon
"A marvelous behind-the-scenes account of the 1976 campaigns, that revealed the back-room mechanics of politics more revealingly than any book since Joe McGinniss's The Selling of the President."
Cover of Bare Feet, Iron Will: Stories From the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields
Bare Feet, Iron Will: Stories From the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields
James G. Zumwalt · Buy on Amazon
"It drives home better than any book I've read why the war was such a futile, impossible waste."
Cover of The Selling of the President
The Selling of the President
Joe McGinniss · Buy on Amazon
"That revealed the back-room mechanics of politics more revealingly than any book since Joe McGinniss's The Selling of the President."

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