b'Guest: Historian Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Nixoland: The Rise of a President\\xa0and the Fracturing of America, The Invisible Bridge and his latest book is\\xa0Reaganland: America\\u2019s Right Turn 1976-1980.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nThe post Chronicling the Republican Party from 1976 to 1980 appeared first on KPFA.'