TY - BOOK AU - Goldwater,Barry M. AU - Goldwater,CC AU - Kennedy,Robert F. AU - Wilentz,Sean AU - Will,George F. TI - The Conscience of a Conservative T2 - The James Madison Library in American Politics SN - 9781400827626 AV - JK271 .G668 2007eb U1 - 320.520973 22 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Conservatism KW - United States KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism KW - bisacsh KW - Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933) KW - Americans For Democratic Action KW - Blackwell, Morton KW - Burke, Edmund KW - Chambers, Whittaker KW - Christian Coalition KW - Civil Rights Act (1866) KW - Franklin, Benjamin KW - Gingrich, Newt KW - Gormulka, Wladyslaw KW - Hamilton, Alexander KW - Heritage Foundation KW - Hoover Commission KW - Hungary KW - King, Martin Luther, Jr KW - Kirk, Russell KW - Larson, Arthur KW - Marx, Karl KW - Medicare KW - New Republicanism KW - Norquist, Grover KW - Poland KW - Rockefeller, Nelson KW - Schlafly, Phyllis KW - Socialist Party KW - Tocqueville, Alexis de KW - U.S. Congress KW - U.S. Senate KW - United Automobile Workers (UAW) KW - Viguerie, Richard KW - Wallace, Henry KW - Weyrich, Paul KW - Wister, Owen KW - Witness (Chambers) KW - absolutism KW - collectivists KW - communism KW - conservatism KW - conservatives KW - democracy KW - dissent, in the 1960s KW - education KW - grants-in-aid KW - labor unions KW - liberals/liberalism KW - nationalization KW - property rights KW - public officials, duties of KW - right-to-work laws KW - totalitarianism KW - welfarism N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; General Editor's Introduction --; Foreword --; Preface --; 1. The Conscience of a Conservative --; 2. The Perils of Power --; 3. States' Rights --; 4. And Civil Rights --; 5. Freedom for the Farmer --; 6. Freedom for Labor --; 7. Taxes and Spending --; 8. The Welfare State --; 9. Some Notes on Education --; 10. The Soviet Menace --; Afterword --; Index; restricted access N2 - In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance of conservative principles--freedom, foremost among them--in contemporary political life. Using the principles he espoused in this concise but powerful book, Goldwater fundamentally altered the political landscape of his day--and ours UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400827626?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400827626 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400827626.jpg ER -