This follow up (or distinct from book) to Rick Perlstein’s previous contemporary history The Coming Storm, takes on the Richard Nixon’s role in the creation of the modern GOP, and as Perlstein frames it in this series, the “end of American consensus.” His argument throughout these first two books is that the conservative wing of the Republican party worked tirelessly to gain control of the Republican party. If you’ve read The Coming Storm, you know that that book was a mini-biography of Barry Goldwater that […]