![]() ![]() He argued that civil-rights legislation would create a police state he felt the US should be prepared for an all-out nuclear war he saw unions as oppressors of the working class. Goldwater’s crusade was against moderation, and his jeremiads convinced millions to support him. He was a relative outsider who knocked heads with the greats of the past (Kennedy, Johnson, Rockefeller, and Nixon), but more important were his associations with the heroes (Ronald Reagan and William Rehnquist) of more recent conservative triumphs. The second most charismatic politician alive in the early 1960s (after John Kennedy), Goldwater was a man before his time. The era of Perlstein’s Goldwater is not so far from ours. An analysis of the forces that led to Barry Goldwater’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate of 1964. ![]()
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