Historian Rick Perlstein Demolishes Pat Buchanan on MSNBC

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet at 9:54 AM on June 25, 2008.

Author of Nixonland gives smug Republican a history lesson he won't forget.

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Watch progressive historian and author Rick Perlstein take on Pat Buchanan on MSNBC in a segment about Nixon's legacy of political polarization.

Buchanan asks, sarcastically, how Richard Nixon cheated during the 1972 election. Perlstein, author of the new book Nixonland, gives Buchanan a history lesson he won't soon forget.

Tagged as: book, buchanan, nixonland, perlstein

Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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