Published in the new yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation among other outlets. In his cover essay on the invisible bridge for the New York Times book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlsteins gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. Not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta Stone for reading america and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. Perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. True to form, perlstein doesnt condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. For now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found
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