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Article: Barry Goldwater.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 23, 1995
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Barry Goldwater, by Robert Alan Goldberg (Yale, 451 pp., $27.50)
Mr. Rusher, the former publisher of NR, is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute.
IT has been nearly thirty years since the last biography of Barry Goldwater was published, and a lot of water has gone over the dam. The liberals, having done their damnedest to destroy him when he seemed to threaten their domination, have come to admire the outspoken Arizonan, and never more so than in recent years when his libertarian streak has frequently overpowered his better judgment and given them valuable aid and comfort. Conservatives, for their part, may wince nowadays at his scattershot deviations ...