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

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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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