On q a, we have , rickrk perlstein perlstein. , in your thirdin book, on that. 42 1976 1962 to 197 6, you talk about being a dark time in our history. I am talking about global at the ebola course, the middle east is blowing up again. In america, the crisis of inequality, we kind of have a new normal of which 7 or 8 of unemployed it is ok, the , thecketing of inequality bankers that seem to be able to get away with everything, but, the 1970s were really awful too. Agoear you are, 13 years when you were talking on this program. I want to see if your beliefs are the same today. I am a europeanstyle social democrat. Identify with the leftwing to tuition tradition which has given tax,ca progressive income education, some kind of old age insurance, and we have nothing to be ashamed of. Backieve that we can take the standard of american politics from conservatives. I would not change a word. In this book, you write about a different era. Bridge. Isible covers from 1962 through 19 76. Goldwat
Your second book nixonland, starts with the watts riots and goes through nixons landside in 1972. What is a person with your personal views of politics doing spending all this time with conservatives in this country . That takes us back a ways. I started this project in 1997, and, i might have told you last time, let me know if i am repeating myself, i was fascinated with the 1960s when i was growing up. I went to the renaissance bookstore in wisconsin. It was full of used books and used magazines. That was my playground. I would pick up books about the black panthers, i would pick up books by the reverend john noble, a fundamentalist preacher who argued that the beatles were a communist plot. When i came to new york, i realized i wanted to become a journalist. I wanted to write a book. It was right around the time that Newt Gingrichs Republican Congress was taking the world by storm, Timothy Mcveigh blew up the Federal Building in oklahoma city, and i had also been fascinated with my
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Ronald Reagan, who was born 113 years ago this week, occupied the Oval Office when I arrived in Washington as a correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News. The president was also from California, and many of his key advisers, so even though the White House was not (yet) my beat, I often wrote about the personalities and policies of the administration.