Independent scholar and freelance writer Rick Perlstein will deliver a lecture, "The Kids Are(n't) All Right: Youth and American Politics, 1960-2002," on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit. The lecture is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.
Rick Perlstein is an independent scholar and freelance writer who has studied history at the Universities of Chicago and Michigan. He is the author of many articles and reviews about American politics and culture in journals including The Nation, Lingua Franca, and the Village Voice. He has also written newspaper opinion pieces for The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and The Arizona Republic. He has recently published Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) which was recently nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is currently writing a book about American culture and society in the Nixon years.
The lecture is open to the public and all are invited to attend.
