Eh, by that point, it was probably just water under the bridge.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
I checked with Alan Alda, and he said it's okay if I laugh.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
Finished Nixonland.
Boy, does that book go up a notch once Nixon begins recording his conversations.
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
Finished. (Reaganland). Exhausted. Possibly the longest book I've ever read.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
I thought it a breeze -- I gobbled it. Did it bore you?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
At times, yes--when he waded into stuff like Moral Majority meetings, or anti-tax amendments and such. I found there was much more of that than in the previous three books. I like it best when he steps back and connects what's going on politically to the culture out there. And there was some of that--like how Reagan's defense of the Vietnam War was initially assumed to be catastrophic by the press, but that meanwhile they completely missed that The Deer Hunter was indicating something else was plainly underfoot.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah. I loved those bits.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Good podcast with the LGM folk: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/10/lgm-podcast-reaganland
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
My next book, with @littlebrown + editor @pronoydsarkar—on what has happened to America since 2000, and how it can unhappen. Short, sharp, and out in time for the 2024 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. And it will take no prisoners. Now leave me alone for 18 months! pic.twitter.com/OHbpk4dNK2— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) May 17, 2022
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
I've read a couple of those here's-how-to-fix-things books (which this sounds like), and can think of many I haven't; wish he'd continued on with what he was doing.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
The "short, sharp" thing makes me wonder if he needed to give himself a "little" project break between what he was doing and the "leave me alone" bit makes me hopeful he's getting back to it. Dunno.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
I thought so too. Also: cash flow.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
He's already answered the question the next book would need to answer--"How did Trump happen?"--but I still want him to write it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
I remembered a book called "After Strage Texts" after reading about TS Eliott's "After Strange Gods" and discovered it literally un-google-able": only TS and stuff about texting. It can't even come up (without subtitle) in an Amazon search! https://t.co/XFrDEooZZx— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) February 10, 2023
True, I also get no results for "After Strage Texts"
"After Strange Texts" otoh...
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
I've looked for ASG for a couple years. Not even my uni library has a copy.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link