His next book will cover the four years before Reagan’s election in 1980. Including the earlier books, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus and Nixonland, his enthusiastic studies in conservatism now run more than 2,000 pages. The Invisible Bridge continues Perlstein’s multi-book project depicting the American conservative movement in the culturally liberal period of the 1960s and 1970s. Many people were looking for a savior from the uncertainties of the age, and Ronald Reagan served that function for many in 1976. It chronicles that time of serial debacle (1973–1976) between Watergate and the election of Jimmy Carter, an era when Americans were deeply and publicly suspicious of their institutions. The Invisible Bridge is a guilty pleasure for those who enjoy 1970s nostalgia.
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