Author Profile
Rick Perlstein
1969 • American • Historian
62
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Collected Meditations
Showing 62 quotesWhat is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.— Rick Perlstein
Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).— Rick Perlstein
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.— Rick Perlstein