Louis Menand (b. 1952)
Harvard Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English; New Yorker staff writer (since 2001); intellectual historian; author of The Metaphysical Club (2001, Pulitzer Prize) and The Free World (2021); the wiki cites him as the author of He Knew He Was Right (New Yorker, March 2001), the canonical short essay-review of Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm and a clean statement of the Goldwater-as-premonition thesis.
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Stub — Menand is a literary-historical writer whose role here is single-source citation.