The Conscience of a Conservative by Goldwater, Barry - 1960

Enormously significant book in the history of American politics. Book is in near fine condition and just jacket is in good condition with significant fading along spine and a few chips in the top and bottom of spine. Book is boldly signed diagonally across the first blank page. (see pictures)

Clean text. Unclipped ($3.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.

Laid in: Reprint of book review by Russell Kirk that appeared in Chicago Daily Calumet on May 3, 1960.

The book revived the American conservative movement, made Goldwater a political star, and has influenced countless conservatives in the United States, helping to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s.

A surprise hit book from Arizona senator Barry Goldwater that became his manifesto in the 1964 US Presidential race against Lyndon Baines Johnson. Goldwater lost, but his election strategy and his brand of conservatism would greatly influence the Republican Party for decades.

The 123-page book covers such topics as education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. The book is considered to be a significant statement of politically and economically American conservative ideas which were to gain influence during the following decades.