Author to speak on political book

Stephanie White, Entertainment Editor

A New York Times bestselling author will be giving a lecture about a political force and its rise during the last century.

Author Rick Prelstein will be visiting Eastern at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

He will be delivering the 11th annual Barry D. Riccio lecture, which will be based of off his latest book, “The Invisible Bridge: From Reagan to Palin and Beyond,” where he will explore the rise of conservatism as a political force during the last quarter of the 20th century.

Perlstein was born in 1969 in Milwaukee and currently lives in Chicago.  He is a writer for The Nation, a political magazine.

He is also the former chief national correspondent for the Village Voice, a New York City newspaper and a former online columnist for the New Republic and Rolling Stone.

His stories have been published in Newsweek, The New York Times and other publications as well.

The books covers the time American was “on the verge of a nerve breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s,” according to the book cover.

During the lecture, he will be talking about his book and how it asks the question of what it means to believe in America.

Perlstein is the winner of many awards including the Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and has written other books, “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America” and “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking if the American Consensus.”

The lecture is co-sponsored by the history department and Honors College.

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