The Conscience of a Conservative

The Conscience of a Conservative
Cover of the first edition
Author	Barry Goldwater (nominal)
Subject	Politics, American conservatism
Publisher	Victor Publishing Co. [name used by Frank E. Simon, manager of the real publisher, viz., Publishers Printing Company, Shepardsville, Ky]
Publication date	1960
Media type	Print
Pages	123
OCLC	1002492

The Conscience of a Conservative is a 1960 book published under the name of Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. It reignited 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.^[1]

The book was ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr., brother-in-law of William F. Buckley Jr..^[1] Bozell and Buckley had been members of Yale's debate team. They had co-authored the controversial book, McCarthy and His Enemies, in 1955. Bozell had been Goldwater's speechwriter in the 1950s, and was familiar with many of his ideals.

Content

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.^[1]

Namesake books

The book, and its pithy title, continue to inspire contemporary political commentary.

In 2007, Paul Krugman entitled his own book The Conscience of a Liberal, saying in the introduction that he wanted his work to stand as a counterpoint to Goldwater's.^[2]
Zell Miller (2003), A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat
Wayne Allyn Root (2009), The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts.
Gary Chartier (2011), The Conscience of an Anarchist: Why It's Time to Say Good-Bye to the State and Build a Free Society
Jeff Flake (2017), Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle , ISBN 978-0399592911

Later editions

A half-century edition, edited by C.C. Goldwater (his granddaughter), with a foreword by George Will, and an afterword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, was published by the Princeton University Press in 2007.

References

1 2 3 Frohnen, Bruce (2006). American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. Wilmington: Intercollegiate Studies Institute. pp. 179–80. ISBN 1-932236-43-0.
↑ Krugman, Paul (2007). The Conscience of a Liberal. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-06069-1.

Sources

Sample chapter of an updated version of The Conscience of a Conservative

Barry Goldwater
Political career	Electoral history of Barry Goldwater Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act 1964 presidential campaign Goldwater v. Carter Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 Goldwater–Nichols Act
Elections	United States Senate election in Arizona, 1952 1958 1964 Republican National Convention United States presidential election, 1964 United States Senate election in Arizona, 1968 1974 1980
Family and personal life	Barry Goldwater, Jr. Don Goldwater Goldwater's
Other	The Conscience of a Conservative The Goldwaters Goldwater v. Ginzburg Goldwater rule Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Goldwater Institute

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