Covers essentially the period of the George H.W. Bush presidency and the 1992 election. Goes a lot into the idea of how the middle class getting fucked over in the Reagan years caused a ton of discontent that was then amplified by the end of the 1990 recession and how those economic (and foreign policy) concerns led to disillusioned people turning to populism and how those were able to be harnessed by rising figures of the era like David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot. It's essentially about the roots of MAGA and obviously more liberal but I don't think it comes off as being overly preachy and the stories that it covers—like a lot of time spent on the development of policing, police attitudes and the LAPD's history as lead up to the LA Riot, the Weavers and the rise of the militia movement, the Vietnam POW movement and such—is fairly interesting. I'm kind of hoping he does a follow up focused on Clinton's first term. I feel like we're at the point where we should start getting proper histories, examinations and surveys of the 1990s.

Does anyone know of Perelstein's books covering the rise of the conservative movement in the 1960s and '70s are worth reading at all?

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This and the volume that preceded it by the same author (Years of Peril and Ambition) got combined into one mega-volume called From Colony to Superpower. Well worth reading.