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...olden days of yesteryear, Democratic Party stalwarts responded to Senator Goldwater??s plea (“In your heart, you know he’s right”) with a crisp “But in your head, you know he’s nuts...
...control what Americans hear. When the Dixie Chicks criticized the war in Iraq, for example, Clear Channel refused to play their music. The company’s executives also chose to silence Charles Goyette, a decorated veteran and former Reaganite who got his start in politics by running Barry Goldwater??s student operation during “Mr. Conservative’s” 1964 presidential bid. Until recently, Goyette was a drive-time radio host at a Philadelphia Clear Channel station. But when President Bush began moving the country towards war, he questioned Bush?...
Even apart from the images of the Rocky Mountain states which are likely to alienate East Coast dwellers—those of bumpkin right-wingers who are to the right of Barry Goldwater??it is undeniable that the vast majority of people here do not share a culture with the East Coast. My own freelanced education was something grossly different than a St. Albans one—characterized by reading books outside of the classroom and dabbling in local politics. Other Montanans who didn’t have the luxury of living in “the city?...
...while entertaining, mask a major problem in the book. Perlstein describes a fantastic universe of characters and personalities, including a bipolar LBJ and a young, liberal David Horowitz, but too often he goes off on long tangents, leaving Goldwater to simply make occasional appearances from his surreal airplane. After Goldwater??s rise to fame, we see very little of his inner thoughts, which is odd, considering that he is the book’s main character. Instead, we are treated to exquisite explorations of LBJ’s anxieties, Nixon’s cunning political ploys...
...though the Goldwater campaign’s self-destruction in the final months of the campaign is well-documented—a series of mishaps which included Goldwater??s statement at the convention, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!” and his remark that the Vietnamese Communists should be exposed by “defoliating that country’s forests with low-yield atomic weapons in a way that would not endanger life”—Before the Storm ultimately fails to define exactly how Goldwater?...