The Metropolitan History
Workshop invites you to attend a brown-bag presentation and roundtable
discussion
WRITING FOR THE POPULAR
PRESS: ACADEMIC INTERVENTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
with Rick Perlstein
Friday, February 17
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Tisch Hall, Room 1014
Rick Perlstein is a former
U-M graduate student, now an independent scholar and the author of BEFORE THE
STORM: BARRY GOLDWATER AND THE UNMAKING OF THE AMERICAN CONSENSUS (Hill and
Wang, 2001), winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. He has just published THE STOCK TICKER
AND THE SUPERJUMBO: HOW THE DEMOCRATS CAN ONCE AGAIN BECOME AMERICA'S DOMINANT
POLITICAL PARTY (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2005). He is working on a new book, NIXONLAND: THE CULTURE AND
POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN BERSERK, 1965-1972. He has worked for Village Voice and Lingua Franca, and his
writings have appeared in many forums including The Nation, Dissent, The
Washington Post, The London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book
Review.
To set the stage for this
presentation and the discussion to follow, participants are asked to read a
series of seven op-ed columns and short articles authored by Rick Perlstein.
1. "It's the Wealth,
Stupid," Village Voice, November 16, 2004
http://www.thinkingpeace.com/pages/arts2/arts283.html
2. "Leave It to Cleaver:
Wedge politics have given the GOP an edge, so the
Democrats may want to slice
and dice for their own side," Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2004
http://www.islandlists.com/pipermail/mb-civic/2004-July/000204.html
3. "Reagan's Heartfelt
Letters Illuminate His Presidency," Christian Science
Monitor, September 26, 2003
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0926/p01s04-uspo.html
4. "The Fringe on
Top," OC Weekly, August 15, 2003
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0333,perlstein,46203,1.html
5. "What Gay Studies
Taught the Court," The Washington Post, July 13, 2003
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cgs/WashingtonPostArticle.htm
**The remaining two articles
are not directly linkable but can be found through the ProQuest database.
6. "Retiring, but Not
Shy; Once, a Politician Ahead of His Time," The New York Times, August 26,
2001
7. "A Look at the
Architects of America's Red Scare," The New York Times,
August 20, 2001
Please direct questions or
requests for more information to Matt Lassiter (mlassite@umich.edu).
More information about the
Metropolitan History Workshop can be found here:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/metro/metroworkshop.html