Before the storm: Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus PDF
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Perlstein-Before the pb T:Layout 1 12/10/08 10:50 AM Page 1 HISTORY WINNER of the LOS ANGELES TIMES PERLSTEIN B E S T B O O K O F T H E Y E A R BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY New York Times (cid:3) Washington Post (cid:3) Chicago Tribune Barry Goldwater “BeforetheStormissmartandlively,andthedescriptionisdelightfullythick....ThepointofRick andtheUnmaking Perlstein’sanimatedre-creationoftheGoldwatercampaignisthatBarryGoldwaterwasasmucha oftheAmerican manofthenineteen-sixtiesasAbbieHoffmanorMalcolmX,and,what’smore,hisshadowlooms Consensus agooddeallargerthantheirs.It’snotonlythatmorepoliticianstodaysoundlikeGoldwaterthan likeTomHayden.MorepoliticianstodaysoundlikeGoldwaterthanlikeLyndonJohnson.” BEFORE —LOUIS MENAND, TheNewYorker THE W hen Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm was originally published, it caused a critical S TORM outburstandwentontowinthe LosAngelesTimesBookPrizeforHistory.Tellingthe storyoftheGoldwatercampaignandtheriseoftheconservativemovementintheliberal 1960s,itwasatalethat—untilthisbook—hadneverbeentold. Barry “Adetailedanddramaticnarrativeoftheriseofthemodernright.... Goldwater BEFORE It’sanamazingstory,andPerlstein,amanoftheleft,doesitjustice.” andtheUnmaking ““PPeerrllsstteeiinnrreetteellllsstthhiiss THE —WILLIAM KRISTOL, TheNewYorkTimesBookReview oftheAmerican ssttoorryywwiitthheenneerrggyyaannddsskkiillll.. (cid:3) (cid:3) Consensus STORM ......HHiissvviibbrraanntt,,ddeettaaiilleedd nnaarrrraattiivveemmoovveesssswwiiffttllyyaanndd “Oneofthemoststylish,rivetingachievementsinnarrativehistorytoappear.” bbrriinnggssaallaarrggeeccaassttttoolliiffee..”” —MARK GREIF, TheVillageVoice ——SSAAMM TTAANNEENNHHAAUUSS,, 5.5x8.25 TThheeNNeewwRReeppuubblliicc Rick Perlstein B:1.813 is the NewYorkTimes best-selling author of Nixonland:The Rise of a PresidentandtheFracturingofAmerica.HehascontributedtoTheNation,TheNewRepublic,The pb NewYorker,Slate,LondonReviewofBooks,andfromthesummerof2003until2005,hecoveredthe NATION presidentialcampaignsaschiefnationalpoliticalcorrespondentforTheVillageVoice.Helives 4/color inChicago. process www.rickperlstein.org Rick $19.95US/$23.00CAN Finish: ISBN978-1-56858-412-6 Perlstein grittymatte CoverdesignJohnFontana 51995 Coverphotograph©YousufKarsh best-selling authorof Nixonland AMemberofthePerseusBooksGroup www.nationbooks.org 9 781568 584126 Rick Perlstein BEFORE THE STORM: BARRY GOLDWATER AND THE UNMAKING OF THE AMERICAN CONSENSUS RICK PERLSTEIN is the author of Nixonland: The Rise of a Presi- dent and the Fracturing of America. His essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Slate, among other publications. He has received a National Endowment of the Humanities grant for i ndependent scholars, and he is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Nation Books A Member of the Perseus Books Group For Kathy Copyright © 2001 by Rick Perlstein First published by Hill and Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published in 2009 by Nation Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 116 East 16th Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 Nation Books is a co-publishing venture of the Nation Institute and the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address the Perseus Books Group, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810. Books published by Nation Books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the United States by corporations, institutions, and other organizations. For more information, please contact the Special Markets Department at the Perseus Books Group, 2300 Chestnut Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, or call (800) 255-4145, ext. 5000, or e-mail [email protected]. Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published material can be found on page 672. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perlstein, Rick, 1969– Before the storm : Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus / Rick Perlstein.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8090-2858-1 (pbk.) 1. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909–1998. 2. United States— Politics and government—1953–1961. 3. United States—Politics and government—1961–1963. 4. United States—Politics and government— 1963–1969. 5. Conservatism—United States—History—20th century. 6. Presidents—United States—Election—1964. I. Title. E748.G64 P37 2001 973.92’092—dc21 00-033427 2009 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-56858-412-6
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