"But facts, as Reagan once said, are stubborn things, and conservatives would do well to consult some of the fine work now being done by progressive historians on the conservative era that is in its final days. If liberals once dismissed the rising right as a bunch of insecure crackpots animated by "status anxiety" and other psychological ills, the right's undeniable successes have forced them to take a more sober and, occasionally, a more respectful view."
In The American Prospect, E.J. Dionne, Jr., reviews William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater; Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America; Sean Wilentz's The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008; and Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer's Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s.
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