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Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign And the Origins of the Conservative Movement
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December 2006
On Sale: November 30, 2006
290 pages ISBN: 0465045731 EAN: 9780465045730 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The insider account that sets the record straight about the
election that gave birth to modern conservatism in the
United States The 1964 presidential campaign lives on in conservative
circles as an origin myth for the modern conservative
movement. Even though their preferred (and now revered)
candidate lost to Lyndon B. Johnson by a landslide, Barry
Goldwater's failed presidential run was a major turning
point of the twentieth century. Without Goldwater's
philosophy to pave the way--and, just as importantly,
without the strategic and political infrastructure created
by the "Draft Goldwater" movement that preceded it--there
likely would have been no Reagan or Bush administrations,
and possibly no Nixon administration either. The policy
positions and electoral strategies of the Goldwater campaign
became standard tenets of Republican politics. William Middendorf had better than a ringside seat for this
pivotal campaign. A key member of the "Draft Goldwater"
movement as early as 1962, he was Goldwater's campaign
treasurer and, afterwards, a major force within the
Republican Party. No one knows the real inside story better,
and A Glorious Disaster tells that story in all its
rollicking, agonizing, and never-before-published detail.
Following his work on the Goldwater campaign and four years
as treasurer of the Republican National Committee.
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