I picked up this book for a few reasons: 1) I remember fondly my father saying he was "more right wing than Barry Goldwater" 2) I am intrigued at the power of the right in America today, especially when so many extreme conseratives complain that they are a powerless minority (well, maybe that's true when it comes to getting their way on abortion, separation of church and state, civil rights for homosexuals, etc.) - despite the fact that the media seems to have a much more right wing bias these days than I recall when I was younger (in the 70's and 80's), and 3) I liked the picture of Barry Goldwater on the cover.
Here is William Kristol's blurb on the back of the book (William Kristol is a conservative who frequently shows up on panels on Fox News.) :
"Combining prodigious research with journalistic flair, Rick Perlstein...has produced a detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice." - William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review |
