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Flying high : remembering Barry Goldwater / William F. Buckley, Jr.

Title: Flying high : remembering Barry Goldwater / William F. Buckley, Jr.
Author: Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008
Publication: New York : Basic Books, c2008.

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xii, 208 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward. But the policy intellectuals knew that to actually change the way the country was run, they needed a presidential candidate, and the man they turned to was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was in many ways the perfect choice: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably honest and dashingly handsome, with a devoted following that grew throughout the fifties and early sixties.
He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't bend his opinions to make himself more popular, he insisted on using his own inexperienced advisors to run his presidential campaign, and in the end he electrified a large portion of the electorate but lost the great majority. Flying High is Buckley's partly fictional tribute to the man who was in many ways his alter ego in the conservative movement. It is the story of two men who looked as if they were on the losing side of political events, but were kept aloft by the conviction that in fact they were making history.

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Biographies
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Includes index.

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committed to retain

Contents

1 Stirrings in Chicago 9 -- 2 Young Americans for Freedom 21 -- 3 Early Days at National Review 27 -- 4 An Unwelcoming Committee for Khrushchev 35 -- 5 Khrushchev Tours America 39 -- 6 Goldwater-Bozell: Seeking Victory over Communism 53 -- 7 Goldwater and the Labor Unions 59 -- 8 Plotting at Palm Beach 65 -- 9 Flying over the Grand Canyon 71 -- 10 Internal Strife: The Baroody Factor 79 -- 11 "Barry's Going to Run" 85 -- 12 The Conscience of a Conservative 89 -- 13 In the Snows of New Hampshire 103 -- 14 Ebullience in California 111 -- 15 Rockefeller Looks Ahead 125 -- 16 Goldwater's Youth Movement 131 -- 17 The Campaign Strategy 139 -- 18 "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty" 143 -- 19 The Ghost of JFK 155 -- 20 Heading Home 159 -- 21 The Eve of Disaster 163 -- 22 Reagan: A Fresh Star 167 -- 23 The Vision of Karl Hess 171 -- 24 Eisenhower's Steely Analysis 177 -- 25 Flying High 183.

ISBN

9780465008360 (alk. paper)
0465008364 (alk. paper)

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^^2007036392

OCLC

171287610
SCSB-10271868

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Harvard Library