Nixonland is downright eerie against today's backdrop.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
Sorry, missed OL's post just before mine.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Before the Storm is the best so yes, start there
clemenza unless Perlstein has cheanged his mind recently this will be the last volume
I’m thinking it will end with the 84 landslide like nixonland did with 72
― sciatica, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
idgi wasn’t his last book the reagan one
― flopson, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
they’re all the reagan one
― sciatica, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
i saw perlstein speak at a book signing a couple years ago, he said the next book would end with reagan's election and that he had no plans to write any further books in the "series."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
i thought that was interesting because i don't really think of reagan as dominating the culture pre-1980 in the way he did as president -- but an argument that america slowly became "reaganland" in the years leading up to his election, that the slow backlash against the 60s and liberalism made his presidency possible, yeah, i could see that.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
he had no plans to write any further books in the "series."
tf else is he gonna do
― flopson, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
maybe work on his music idk
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
He'd probably do well to stop--the transformation from Reagan to Trump has been covered to death by now, and in many different ways.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--YRHwQ3ru--/t_Resized%20Artwork/c_crop,x_10,y_10/c_fit,w_470/c_crop,g_north_west,h_626,w_470,x_0,y_0/g_north_west,u_upload:v1462829015:production:blanks:mtl53ofohwq5goqjo9ke,x_-395,y_-325/b_rgb:eeeeee/c_limit,f_jpg,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1527645092/production/designs/2736516_0.jpg
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
someone buy me that t-shirt so I can wipe my arse on it
― my future think tank (stevie), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Or at least put 'WATCH FOR ARMED DOTARDS' in a US flag font across the top.
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
Anyone else here start in on Reaganland?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
shut your mouth
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/books/review/reaganland-rick-perlstein.html
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I'm balking at the $55 cost.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
Got mine on Sunday, I’m 85 pages in. Probably need about a three month head start to finish before Alfred.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
My copy arrives tomorrow. Race you!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
Why did you have to make it racist?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
hard to believe the publisher passed on that as a title for the series as a whole
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
Heh. "From Goldwater to Reagan: The Rise of Conservatism in America, or, Why Did You Have to Make It Racist?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
Where's the Racist of Me?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
Who Moved My Racism?
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Racist Soup for the Soul
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Racist to the Bottom
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Girl, Wash Your Racism
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
President Keyes delivers the lol.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
This piece from 2012 is just scarily on the mark for current era. And. as we look towards Romney's potential role during the Biden administration, a good reminder about Romney's past. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
― that's not my post, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Reading this now. I find these books to be oddly comforting. The parallels to whatever is going on now to, say, West Virginia in 1972 makes me think "this country has always been insane". This one, yes, but especially Nixonland. The 70s were fucking ~insane~.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Most interesting insane decade ever.
Still holding out hope for a bringing-it-all-back-home final book.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 October 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
The 70s were fucking ~insane~.
Living through the 70s is what formed all the now-insane boomers.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
I love when Perlstein points out the obvious about the audience for some right wing knuckle-dragging talking-point. Like here where Reagan had just recorded a long form talk-to-the-camera speech:
One reviewer -- Elizabeth Drew -- found it "rather poor. Reagan jumped from subject to subject, just as he had in his early speeches when he shuffled his 4x6 cards; he talked too fast about too many things [...]" But New Yorker writers did not have a vote in North Carolina Republican primaries.
In Nixonland, it was the opposite -- when some horn-rimmed-glasses-wearing bureaucrat would spout statistics that would lead to Perlstein would write something like "it all made so much sense" to liberals, only to have Nixon pull the rug on them again with some inanity.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Picking up The Invisible Bridge and Reaganland from my local library tomorrow. Just finishing Season 2 of Mindhunter, which mostly deals with the Atlanta child murders, so I guess late '70s/early '80s is where my brain is right now.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Picking up The Invisible Bridge and Reaganland from my local library tomorrow.
That is a lot of pages. Glad my copy of Invisible Bridge auto-renewed...twice.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 31 October 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link