2023 Hardcover Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Conscience of a Conservative" was published by Goldwater when he was an Arizona Senator and a potential 1964 Republican presidential candidate. The book reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. The book has influenced countless conservatives in the United States...
The book that established the intellectual ground for the modern American conservative movementIt was 1960. The Cold War churned, and the rules of civil society were rapidly changing as the dust settled on The New Deal, an epic American experiment in Big Government. Was this a good course to follow? According to Barry Goldwater, then an Arizona senator and future Republican nominee for President of the United States, the answer lay in the Cons...
Published in 1960 under the name of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative" is a widely influential and important book on the American conservative political movement. While the book was published under Goldwater's name, it was ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr., the brother-in-law of William F. Buckley and Goldwater's speech writer in the 1950s. The book was instantly popular and catapulted Goldwater, a Senator fr...
The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States, and helped lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980. It covers topics such as education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. This significant book lays out the con...
Excerpt from Why Not Victory: A Fresh Look at American Foreign PolicyYoung people are discovering that, contrary to What they might have been told in school, conservatism is not dead. Conservatism IS a natural philosophy which recognizes man as having a spiritual and a material side, and that the two are intertwined. One cannot be affected without a reaction taking place in the other. Consequently as the focus is placed on the material side, t...
?This is a very forward looking and solid statement of present-day conditions from the conservative point of view. Recommended for all libraries with even the most remote interest in this subject.?-Library Journal
Former Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater lays out the conservative position both politically and economically that would come to dominate the Conservative Movement in America.
Former Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater lays out the conservative position both politically and economically that would come to dominate the Conservative Movement in America.
Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1964. First published in 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative is what's known as a "campaign biography.
The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States, and helped lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980. It covers topics such as education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. This significant book lays out the con...
Excerpt from Why Not Victory: A Fresh Look at American Foreign PolicyYoung people are discovering that, contrary to What they might have been told in school, conservatism is not dead. Conservatism IS a natural philosophy which recognizes man as having a spiritual and a material side, and that the two are intertwined. One cannot be affected without a reaction taking place in the other. Consequently as the focus is placed on the material side, t...
2011 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Conscience of a Conservative" was published by Goldwater when he was an Arizona Senator and a potential 1964 Republican presidential candidate. The book reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. The book has influenced countless conservatives in the United States, helping to ...