Posted on 08/17/2014 6:33:39 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Edited on 08/17/2014 6:44:54 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
To understand the roots of the Perlstein controversy, you have to go back to his first book. Before the Storm (2001) told the story of Barry Goldwater’s radical Republican campaign for the presidency in 1964 an effort infamously summarised by Goldwater’s assertion that “extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice”. Perlstein’s book was different from all that came before because it was free of authorial voice, letting the protagonists speak for themselves for the first time. Liberals praised his research; conservatives loved his open-mindedness. It seemed that Perlstein had invented an apolitical way of writing political history.
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What are you trying to say?
Is rightwing inflammation often accompanied by rearwing wind?
Not aware of being inflamed, but I don’t read everything and for sure I won’t be reading that one.
I’m a happy guy mostly and plan on staying that way.
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