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.
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