Rick Perlstein is the author of NIXONLAND: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications; BEFORE THE STORM: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, was published in August, 2014.  His essays and book reviews have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice and Slate, among others. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for independent scholars. He lives in Chicago.

Books by Rick Perlstein

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

by Rick Perlstein - History, Nonfiction, Politics

The bestselling author of NIXONLAND has written a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. Against a backdrop of melodramas from the Arab oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of America’s greatest city, THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE asks the question: What does it mean to believe in America? To wave a flag --- or to reject the glibness of the flag wavers?

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein - History, Nonfiction, Political Science