The Conscience of a Conservative
About this ebook
Senator Barry Goldwater is not the only member of Congress who holds these truths, but he is the only person in high public office who has frankly and publicly put all these truths together into a complete and cogent program of foreign and domestic policy.
This supremely sensible and eminently courageous book will shock orthodox politicians as much as it will gratify millions of Americans who are sick and tired of political contests between meaningless equivocations and undifferentiated distinctions.
The revealed conscience of this distinguished and singularly successful political Conservative will shed helpful light on the fabrication of both political platforms.
More important than that is the clear warning this book sounds about impending dangers to the survival of American freedom and the action it recommends to avoid these dangers.
EVERY AMERICAN WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
“There is more harsh fact and hard sense in this slight book than will emerge from all of the chatter of this year’s session of Congress, this year’s campaign for the Presidency and all other offices. Whereas the rest of the tribe of professional politicians keep a respectful distance in beating about the bush of truth, Barry Goldwater, the Republican Senator from Arizona, is not afraid to pluck it up by the roots.”—George Morgenstern, Chicago Sunday Tribune
Ratings and reviews
- Flag inappropriate
About the author
Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) was an American politician and businessman who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987) and the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 2, 1909, the son of Baron M. Goldwater and his wife, Hattie Josephine “JoJo” Williams, he graduated from Staunton Military Academy, an elite private school in Virginia, and attended the University of Arizona for one year. Following his father’s death in 1930, he dropped out of college to work full-time at his family’s leading upscale department store in Phoenix. With the American entry into World War II, Goldwater received a reserve commission in the United States Army Air Forces. He became a pilot assigned to the Ferry Command, a newly formed unit that flew aircraft and supplies to war zones worldwide. He spent most of the war flying between the U.S. and India, and also over the Himalayas to deliver supplies to the Republic of China. After the war, he embarked on a political career, entering Phoenix politics in 1949, when he was elected to the City Council as part of a nonpartisan team of candidates pledged to clean up widespread prostitution and gambling. He then ran for a seat in the United States Senate in 1952, won, and went on to serve in the senate for 30 years, gaining recognition for his fiscal conservatism. Goldwater famously lost the 1964 campaign for the presidency to Lyndon B. Johnson in unprecedented landslide, but later ran for the senate again and won, serving from 1969 until his retirement in 1987. He died in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on May 29, 1998 at the age of 89.
