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A Glorious Disaster
John William Middendorf
其他書名
Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement
出版Basic Books, 2006-10-23
主題Biography & Autobiography / PoliticalPolitical Science / Political Process / Elections
ISBN04650457319780465045730
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zVub5IK1-8kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The 1964 presidential campaign lives on in conservative circles as an origin myth for the modern conservative movement. Even though their preferred (and now revered) candidate lost to Lyndon B. Johnson by a landslide, Barry Goldwater's failed presidential run was a major turning point of the twentieth century. Without Goldwater's philosophy to pave the way--and, just as importantly, without the strategic and political infrastructure created by the "Draft Goldwater" movement that preceded it--there likely would have been no Reagan or Bush administrations, and possibly no Nixon administration either. The policy positions and electoral strategies of the Goldwater campaign became standard tenets of Republican politics. William Middendorf had better than a ringside seat for this pivotal campaign. A key member of the "Draft Goldwater" movement as early as 1962, he was Goldwater's campaign treasurer and, afterwards, a major force within the Republican Party. No one knows the real inside story better, and A Glorious Disaster tells that story in all its rollicking, agonizing, and never-before-published detail.