Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by SCHMITT, MARK
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein. Hill and Wang, 671 pages, $30.00.
The rise of the right has been a subject of fascination to writers on the left ever since they started taking it seriously--generally about five years after it sunk in that Ronald Reagan was president. By now, the tale has achieved canonical status through books like The Rise of the Counter-Establishment (1986) by Sidney Blumenthal and A World Turned Right Side Up (1996) by Godfrey Hodgson. (Both are pale imitations of George H. Nash's more ...
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