Prize-winning historian and journalist Rick Perlstein will deliver a talk titled "Hell in the City of Angels: The Watts Riot of August, 1965, and the End of the Liberal Consensus," at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26 in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson building at Hamilton College. His talk, sponsored by the department of history and the American Studies program, is free and open to the public.
Rick Perlstein is author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. He is also the former chief national correspondent for the Village Voice, for which he covered the 2004 presidential election. He will soon be publishing a pamphlet about what the lessons of the rise of conservatism provide for the Democratic Party, The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party.
His talk will be drawn from a longer work in progress, Nixonland: The Politics of the American Berserk, 1965-1972, the sequel to Before the Storm.
Rick Perlstein is author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. He is also the former chief national correspondent for the Village Voice, for which he covered the 2004 presidential election. He will soon be publishing a pamphlet about what the lessons of the rise of conservatism provide for the Democratic Party, The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party.
His talk will be drawn from a longer work in progress, Nixonland: The Politics of the American Berserk, 1965-1972, the sequel to Before the Storm.
