Rick Perlstein
September 3, 1969 (57 years old) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Rick Perlstein (born September 3, 1969) is an American historian and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the post-1960s American conservative movement. The author of five 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."
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Breakdown: 1975 as Self
- 2023 · Rather as Self - Historian & Journalist
- 2017 · Trumpland: Kill All Normies as Self
- 2014 · 1964 as Self
- 1988 · American Experience as Self




