Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
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. He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't't bend his opinions to make himself more popular, he insisted on using his own inexperienced advisors to run his presidential campaign, and in the end he electrified a large portion of the electorate but lost the great majority. Flying High is Buckley's partly fictional tribute to the man who was in many ways his alter ego in the conservative movement. It is the story of two men who looked as if they were on the losing side of political events, but were kept aloft by the conviction that in fact they were making history.
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Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
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. He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't't bend his opinions to make himself more popular, he insisted on using his own inexperienced advisors to run his presidential campaign, and in the end he electrified a large portion of the electorate but lost the great majority. Flying High is Buckley's partly fictional tribute to the man who was in many ways his alter ego in the conservative movement. It is the story of two men who looked as if they were on the losing side of political events, but were kept aloft by the conviction that in fact they were making history.
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Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

by William F. Buckley Jr.
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

by William F. Buckley Jr.

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Overview

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. He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't't bend his opinions to make himself more popular, he insisted on using his own inexperienced advisors to run his presidential campaign, and in the end he electrified a large portion of the electorate but lost the great majority. Flying High is Buckley's partly fictional tribute to the man who was in many ways his alter ego in the conservative movement. It is the story of two men who looked as if they were on the losing side of political events, but were kept aloft by the conviction that in fact they were making history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465018055
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 03/09/2010
Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) was one of the intellectual leaders of the right for more than fifty years. The founder and editor-in-chief of the National Review, he was also the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H.W. Bush in 1991.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Prologue 1

1 Stirrings in Chicago 9

2 Young Americans for Freedom 21

3 Early Days at National Review 27

4 An Unwelcoming Committee for Khrushchev 35

5 Khrushchev Tours America 39

6 Goldwater-Bozell: Seeking Victory over Communism 53

7 Goldwater and the Labor Unions 59

8 Plotting at Palm Beach 65

9 Flying over the Grand Canyon 71

10 Internal Strife: The Baroody Factor 79

11 "Barry's Going to Run" 85

12 The Conscience of a Conservative 89

13 In the Snows of New Hampshire 103

14 Ebullience in California 111

15 Rockefeller Looks Ahead 125

16 Goldwater's Youth Movement 131

17 The Campaign Strategy 139

18 "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty" 143

19 The Ghost of JFK 155

20 Heading Home 159

21 The Eve of Disaster 163

22 Reagan: A Fresh Star 167

23 The Vision of Karl Hess 171

24 Eisenhower's Steely Analysis 177

25 Flying High 183

Coda 189

Acknowledgments 193

Index 197

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