Bio:
Rick Perlstein is senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future. He is the author of “Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus,” winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. It appeared on the best books lists that year of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune. He is currently writing a sequel tentatively titled “Nixonland: The Politics and Culture of the American Berserk, 1965-1972.” He has also published “The Stock Ticker” and “The Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party,” an essay with responses from Robert Reich, Elaine Kamarck, and Ruy Teixeira. From 2003 until 2005 he covered presidential campaigns as chief national political correspondent for The Village Voice. In 2006 and 2007 he wrote a biweekly column for The New Republic Online.
