Rick Perlstein Quotes
What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?
Perlstein, Rick. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Harding, in his quest for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination, attempted to be as non-controversial as possible. His "6 Point Program" was:
Eric S. Perlstein is an American historian and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the 1960s and 1970s, and the American conservative movement. The author of three bestselling books, Perlstein received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Politico has dubbed him "a chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism."