In a rare encounter between reviewer and author, I taped a chat with Rick Perlstein of Nixonland fame a couple weeks ago, and since today is the book's release date - and it just got front-cover treatment in the NYT Book Review, courtesy of George Will - now seemed like a good time to unleash our conversation on the world.
As always, our podcasts are all available for download from iTunes as well.
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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
What did you, Ross, think of George F. Will's review? I enjoyed it myself. But found yours particularly insightful and liked the point you made at the end: While we could have had a better president (possibly) Nixon was perhaps the best we could have had. He was a serious president, at a serious time of national turmoil, although his pettiness made him more than the parenthesis G. Will writes of in the NYT Book Review.
Posted by tom lane | May 13, 2008 9:12 PM