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Rare Perlstein

Everybody seems to agree that Richard Perlstein’s book, “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus” was a very good debut, and a useful insight into the conservative movement’s ascendancy. But who would pay $131.09 for a paperback edition? That’s the lowest price on Amazon: other sellers are asking for as […]

Everybody seems to agree that Richard Perlstein’s book, “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus” was a very good debut, and a useful insight into the conservative movement’s ascendancy. But who would pay $131.09 for a paperback edition? That’s the lowest price on Amazon: other sellers are asking for as much as $184.02. For that kind of money, you could–if you were a bit weird–buy seven copies of Perlstein’s new hardback, Nixonland.

Mick Sussman on the NYT Papercuts blog asks how this fairly insignificant book, published in 2001, came to be so exorbitantly priced. Certainly, the internet transformation of book buying has had some peculiar effects on the trade.

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