Rick Perlstein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@protecttruth_ Leo Ribuffo more critical in "The Old Christian Right." Calls it the "brown scare."

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The most fascinating part: the questioner smugly suggesting equality for Blacks is fine, so long as a majority votes thus in a national referendum. Charles Mills calls this the Euro-American "racial contract": the presumption that rights BELONG to whites to give away. https://t.co/mocPe71sS1

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Sigh, that sinking, futile feeling. TNR, today: "If you’re scandalized by the language of 'counterrevolution' or surprised to hear a conservative talk about 'destroying' things and 'overthrowing' regimes... https://newrepublic.com/article/164408/young-intellectuals-illiberal-revolution-conservatism

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@DaveAlbertson @PeterLKey @RalfThePowerful The picture is of Bill Clinton giving a "tough on crime speech" in 1992 with a group of Black convicts gathered as props at Stone Mountain, Georgia, a massive memorial to the founder of the KKK. The speech was arranged by... https://t.co/rOeofJeGdL

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I'm reading Glenn Beck's Tea Party-era thriller "The Overton Window." Check out some of these items on the shadowy evil elites secret plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD... https://t.co/FE75D5QlK3

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#Blurboftheday: a brand new book. "Garrett Graff aptly calls Watergate a 'Gordian knot of scandal.' This comprehensive, searching, yet elegant book untangles it more completely than any attempt so far. I learned a lot!" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Watergate/Garrett-M-Graff/9781982139162

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@NarcJoeKennedy Very idiosyncratic, but "Break It Up" by Richard Kreitner is a masterpiece.

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who in June of 1963 wrote that Martin Luther King "is demanding the creation, for the Negro alone, of false 'rights' which are no now, and never have been in all the long centuries of an Ango-American concept based on orderly freedom, the rights of anybody at all."

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@aubergineaura @StaceyCKs1 @WomanKansas @StephanieKelton @BCAppelbaum @jasonhickel "AUSTERITY: THE HISTORY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA," by Mark Blyth. "SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE: HOW THE FEDERAL RESERVE RUNS THE COUNTRY," by William Greider.

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Her "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class" is one of my touchstones. It explains why a nation without a social safety net (or one where the social safety net is fraying) is so susceptible to right-wing populist appeals.