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According to Nenneman, Arizona could have been an exciting place for a right-wing conservative in 1964--Governor Barry Goldwater was in the midst of a landbreaking run for President, which while highly unsuccessful at the time would lead to the birth of modern conservatism.
--Arizona Activities at the joint-service Barry M. Goldwater Range under review for possible threat to Sonoran pronghorns
But the Goldwater anecdotes, while entertaining, mask a major problem in the book. Perlstein describes a fantastic universe of characters and personalities, including a bipolar LBJ and a young, liberal David Horowitz, but too often he goes off on long tangents, leaving Goldwater to simply make occasional appearances from his...
And though the Goldwater campaign’s self-destruction in the final months of the campaign is well-documented—a series of mishaps which included Goldwater’s statement at the convention, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!â?...
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus