![]() ![]() Perlstein wanted to explain the triumph of the right-wing backlash that won real political power. Many of his contemporaries concentrated on the new social movements of the 1960s. Perlstein’s theme is the rise of the outsider right. Above all else, Liz Truss’s favourite historian describes how Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan came to dominate US politics. The series covers the sixties’ cultural revolution, the race riots, police violence, America’s pointless and brutal war in Vietnam, and the energy crisis of the 1970s (and how well those pages read today). In May, we nodded along with the interviewer from the Atlantic magazine who ‘saw a copy of Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge on her shelf and thought it was ‘exactly the sort of book I would have expected her to read’.įor those who have never encountered his work, The Invisible Bridge is one part of Perlstein’s four-volume history of the United States from 1960 until 1980. ![]() Admirers of one of America’s great modern historians sat up and paid attention when Liz Truss told the Timesin December that she read ‘anything’ by Rick Perlstein. ![]()
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