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Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

Rick Perlstein

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

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About Rick Perlstein

Eric S. Perlstein (born September 3, 1969) is an American historian and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the post-1960s American conservative movement. The author of five bestselling books, Perlstein received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Politico has dubbed him "a chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism."