Rick Perlstein

January 11, 2024
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Rick Perlstein
Full Name Rick Perlstein
Date Of Birth Sep 3, 1969(1969-09-03)
Age 55
Birthplace Milwaukee
Country United States
Birth City Wisconsin
Horoscope Virgo

Rick Perlstein Biography

Birthday Sep 3
Birth Year 1969

Rick Perlstein is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on September 3, 1969 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Eric S. “Rick” Perlstein (born September 3, 1969) is an American historian and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the 1960s and 1970s, and the American conservative movement. The author of three bestselling books, Perlstein received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Politico has dubbed him “a chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism.”

After graduate study in American studies at the University of Michigan, Perlstein moved to New York in 1994, settling in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. While in New York, Perlstein interned at Lingua Franca, a magazine about academic and intellectual life, where he would become an associate editor. Perlstein also began writing book reviews, for publications like The Nation and Slate. It was Perlstein’s 1996 Lingua Franca essay “Who Owns the Sixties?” that won him public notice, by exposing the emerging chasm between older and younger historians. The essay also aroused the attention of a literary agent and soon after earned him a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Rick Perlstein Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Journalist
House Living in own house.

Rick Perlstein is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rick Perlstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Perlstein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a Reform Jewish family, the third child of Jerold and Sandra (née Friedman) Perlstein. His father ran Bonded Messenger Service, a delivery company founded by his grandfather in

  1. Perlstein grew up in the Bayside and Fox Point neighborhoods of suburban Milwaukee, taking cross country trips with his parents and siblings to national landmarks like Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park. In high school, upon earning his driver’s license, Perlstein would head to Renaissance Books in downtown Milwaukee, and spend hours in its basement among stacks of old magazines from the 1960s. He later recounted in an interview: “I ended up getting my own archive on the 1960s culture wars. That’s where it started.” He also wrote in Rolling Stone: “A sixties obsessive since childhood, I misspent my teenage years prowling a ramshackle five-story used-book warehouse that somehow managed . . . to stay one step ahead of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s building inspectors.” Following graduation from Nicolet High School, Perlstein attended the University of Chicago, earning a B.A. in History in 1992. While at the University of Chicago – years Perlstein described as “delightfully noisy and dissident”, and a stark contrast to the suburbia of his youth, which “felt like a jail” – he was able to engage with and catch neighborhood jam sessions.

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In the September 2014 issue of The Atlantic, former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus wrote that “an insistent vulgarity has overtaken Perlstein’s prose” and that the author “now finds rumor more illuminating than fact.”

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Rob Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rick Perlstein celebrates birthday on September 3 of every year.

In August 2014, Simon & Schuster published The Invisible Bridge: the Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. In his New York Times review, Frank Rich wrote that the tome was “a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today.” The Invisible Bridge received favorable reviews from The New Yorker, Slate, and The Washington Post among others.

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