Rick Perlstein is the author of 'The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan'. Before that, he published 'Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America,' a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications, and 'Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus,' winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. A contributing writer at The Nation, former chief national correspondent for the Village Voice, and a former online columnist for the New Republic and Rolling Stone, his journalism and essays have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, and many other publications.
