![]() ![]() Perlstein is an obsessive researcher who often relies (and fully credits) the Caro is a relentless reporter who tracks down primary sources, human and otherwise. In reaction to the New Deal and Great Society. Perlstein’s focus is the modern conservative movement that rose Caro’s protagonist is our last unabashedly liberal president. Writers’ chosen turfs and techniques are antithetical, however. Caro’s promised final installment will pick up roughly where Perlstein’s first ends, with Johnson’s 1964 landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river.” The book is the third volume in a project that is as ambitious in its way as Robert Caro’s “The Invisible Bridge” takes its title from a bit of cynical political advice bestowed on Nixon by Nikita Khrushchev: “If the people believe there’s an imaginary river out there, youĭon’t tell them there’s no river there. Perlstein’s seriesĪbout the rise of the modern conservative movement in America. In The New York Times Book Review, Frank Rich reviews Rick Perlstein’s “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan,” the third panoramic volume in Mr. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |