Rick Perlstein: "Whatever Happened to Hope: Why Barack Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President" [video 91 minutes and 36 seconds]
Rick Perlstein, an author and political journalist who has written extensively about the history of conservatism in modern America, spoke at Vanderbilt University on March 22, 2010.
His books include Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008). His lecture at Vanderbilt was drawn from a third historical volume he is writing that focuses on the rise of Ronald Reagan.
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His books include Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008). His lecture at Vanderbilt was drawn from a third historical volume he is writing that focuses on the rise of Ronald Reagan.