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Speak Ill of the Dead—Early and Often, Please.

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By Rick Perlstein
| Substack
Mr. Greenspan, he dead. Herewith, some things what I write about him in my next book, The Infernal Triangle: How America Got This Way.
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"But Did You Die?"

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By Rick Perlstein
| Substack
"Media are making a very big deal of this, so.…": thus began a progressive of my acquaintance, explaining why he was so worried that revelations about a certain larger-than-life charismatic Democratic politician engaging in illicit but consensual sexual activity might spell the the end of his political career.
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Rick Perlstein on How America Got This Way

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By Michael Podhorzer, Rick Perlstein
| Weekend Reading
I had a great conversation with Rick Perlstein yesterday that I’ve been wanting to have for a long time. Rick’s four-book series chronicling the rise of the American right, from Goldwater through Reagan (Before the Storm, Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, and Reaganland), is the most comprehensive historical account of, to use his metaphor, how the right-wing storm gathered.
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