On The New Nixon blog your book came in for sustained criticism. Now, more prosaically, he's a pipe fitter. For example, in the original, the job title of a construction worker who beat up a hippie who was depicted beating up a hippie in the 1970 Hard Hat Riot in Lower Manhattan was 'pie fitter' (sounds like a job Abbie Hoffman would invent). No changes, save for some typos and factual mistakes, some of them quite stupid. Now it's come out in a paperback edition. It's been a year since Nixonland was published in hardcover.

The next book was Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (paperback, April 2009). His first book in a projected trilogy was Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein’s magisterial account of how it all happened confirms his place as one of our country’s most celebrated historians.Rick Perlstein's books have helped redefine the history of American conservatism in the modern era. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. Between 19 America experienced no less than a second civil war.

Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Perlstein’s epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson’s historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Nixonlandrecaptures America’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency of the United States. Rick Perlstein’s bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today.Told with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know-American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 19-into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.” -Jeffrey Toobin “Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” -Jon Meacham His success is dazzling.” -Los Angeles Times

“Perlstein.aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval.

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