Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
by Rick Perlstein
Category: Political Science

In an astute and surprising history of the 1960s as the cradle of the conservative movement, Perlstein's gutsy narrative history profiles the rise of Barry Goldwater, the rich, handsome Arizona Republican who scorned the federal bureaucracy and despised liberals on sight.16 pp. of photos.