Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling historian Rick Perlstein—“the chronicler extraordinaire of American conservatism” (Politico)—a sweeping history of the conservative movement from the 1960s through the 1980s.
In this virtuosic award-winning first volume of what The New York Times Book Review hails as “a project that is as ambitious in its way as Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of Lyndon Johnson,” bestselling historian Rick Perlstein charts the birth of the modern conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the forefront is Barry Goldwater, the divisive Arizona Senator known as “Mr. Conservative,” who loathed the federal government, despised liberals, and mocked peaceful coexistence with the USSR. His policies inspired a generation, but cost him the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon Johnson in what was then the largest landslide in American history.
Painstakingly researched and written with verve, Perlstein’s narrative illuminates shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, as well as an entire cohort of eminent politicians and thinkers, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, Bill Moyers, and Ronald Reagan, whose own journey to the White House began with a campaign speech delivered on Goldwater’s behalf. Before the Storm is the essential book for understanding not only the 1960s, but conservatism in America to this day.
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À propos de l'auteur
Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history and appeared on the best books of the year lists of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. His essays and book reviews have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Slate, among others. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for independent scholars. He lives in Chicago.
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