![]() Goldwater was trounced by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. They chose as their hero Barry Goldwater-a rich, handsome Arizona Republican who scorned the federal bureaucracy, reviled dÉtente, despised liberals on sight-and grew determined to see him elected President. Buckley Jr., John Birch Society leader Robert Welch, and thousand of students-formed a movement to challenge the center-left consensus. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, conservatives-editor William F. ![]() An astute and surprising account of the 1960s as the cradle of the Conservative movement Before the Stormbegins in a time much like the present-the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past. ![]()
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