Title: Flying high : remembering Barry Goldwater /
Authors: Buckley, William F., 1925-2008.
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Goldwater, Barry M.; Goldwater, Barry M. Friends and associates.; Buckley, William F.,; Buckley, William F.,; United States. Biography.; Young Americans for Freedom.; Conservatism United States History; Presidential candidates United States Biography; Legislators United States Biography; United States Politics and government
Abstract: 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.