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Rick Perlstein Quotes

Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes Picture Quote #1

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time Picture Quote #1

Reagan’s emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people’s longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived Picture Quote #1

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits’ future, spun of ‘conventional wisdom,’ is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact Picture Quote #1

I’m a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am Picture Quote #1

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That’s the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place Picture Quote #1

In Ronald Reagan’s chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears Picture Quote #1

I don’t read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov Picture Quote #1

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature Picture Quote #1

No historical analogies are exactly precise Picture Quote #1

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger Picture Quote #1

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It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it Picture Quote #1

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives Picture Quote #1

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Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new driver’s license to spend as much time as possible in Milwaukee’s Renaissance Book Shop, a tumbledown five-story warehouse that the city was finally able to close down in 2011 for safety reasons. It was my teenage paradise. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) Reagan’s emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people’s longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits’ future, spun of ‘conventional wisdom,’ is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) I’m a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) That’s the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) In Ronald Reagan’s chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) I don’t read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov. (Rick Perlstein Quotes) Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature (Rick Perlstein Quotes) No historical analogies are exactly precise (Rick Perlstein Quotes) When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger (Rick Perlstein Quotes) It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it (Rick Perlstein Quotes) Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives (Rick Perlstein Quotes)

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