History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
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Rick Perlstein was a contemporary American historian and journalist. Rick Perlstein is an American historian, writer 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 History for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation