Leaving aside the substantive reason that led him to write the post, I see via Paul Krugman that Rick Perlstein has a new book called The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. I’m a terrible human for never having written a review of Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America; it’s one of the best books that I’ve read in the last few years. I’ve not read his Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, but all indications are that it’s as much of a masterpiece as Nixonland.

So yes: more Perlstein in this world, please.