Rick Perlstein Quotes

1 Sourced Quote

It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein

Creative Commons

Born: September 3, 1969 (age 56)

Bio: Eric S. "Rick" Perlstein is an American historian and journalist, who has won wide acclaim for his chronicles of the 1960s and 1970s and the American conservative movement.

Known for:

Nixonland (2000)
Before the storm (2001)
The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo (2005)

Rick Perlstein on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

American Journalist Quotes

Journalist Quotes

20th-century Journalist Quotes