![]() What a shame that the party of Lincoln and Grant would eventually give license to the domestic terrorists known as the Ku Klux Klan just so they could bid for the votes that would allow them to shrink all but the most violent parts of the government. ![]() It seems like the exact point in time where, on social issues at least, the parties really did "trade places". It's a shame, then, that the Southern Strategy really did turn out to be a naked plea to American racists to crush black equality under the law. Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio. Perlstein played fair, and he gave the conservative characters in this book the platform that they deserved. Download or stream Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of. The author did an excellent job of explaining how the American consensus came to pass in the wake of FDR's New Deal, and how durable it remained even as the conservative backlash boiled over in this time period. It spanned from the end of the Eisenhower administration to Goldwater's crushing defeat in 1964. Now for the content of the book it was, as I said, rigorously researched with a high resolution chronology. Even compared to the Gulag Archipelago, which was another dramatic performance, this narrator really nailed the passion of the author. ![]() He really drew out the emotion of the author. However, this performance was inspired, with pitch perfect inflection. I had given excellent performance reviews to many other non fiction books from this platform merely because they were clearly spoken. First of all, the performance by the narrator has caused me to reconsider what it means to experience excellent performance. ![]()
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