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The Conscience of a Conservative
1960 book by Barry Goldwater and L. Brent Bozell Jr. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Conscience of a Conservative is a 1960 book published under the name of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater who was the 1964 Republican presidential candidate. It helped revive the American conservative movement and make Goldwater a political star, and it has influenced countless conservatives in the United States, helping to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s.[1]
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Author | Barry Goldwater (nominal) L. Brent Bozell Jr. (ghostwriter) |
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Subject | Politics, American conservatism |
Publisher | Victor Publishing Co. [name used by Frank E. Simon, manager of the real publisher, viz., Publishers Printing Company, Shepherdsville, Kentucky] |
Publication date | 1960 |
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Pages | 123 |
OCLC | 1002492 |
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The book was largely ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr., brother-in-law of William F. Buckley Jr.[1][2] Bozell and Buckley had been members of Yale's debate team. They had co-authored the controversial book, McCarthy and His Enemies, in 1955. Bozell had been Goldwater's speechwriter in the 1950s and was familiar with many of his ideals.