Person
Rick Perlstein
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- September 3, 1969 · 57 years
- Origin
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Professional Trajectory
Rick Perlstein (born September 3, 1969) is an American historian 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 his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Politico has dubbed him "a chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism."
