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A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)

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A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement, by J. William Middendorf II (Basic, 303 pp., $26.9)

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ABRACING and informative book, taking us through the gestation of the Goldwater-for-president movement and the campaign itself, and giving us chapters on the succession in the leadership of the Republican National Committee. The author, who writes fluently and gives us close-in details of the candidate at his best and at his not-so-good, was named treasurer of the campaign, and notwithstanding the ignominious defeat of 1964, became the treasurer of the GOP. He aspired to be secretary of the Navy, but President ...

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