Quotes by : Rick Perlstein

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder....

(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond....

I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King,....

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

Now even reformers needed political machines.

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for....

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more....