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Article: GANG OF FIVE: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade.(Review)
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- September 1, 2000
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GANG OF FIVE: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade
By Nina Easton Simon & Schuster
Onward Conservative Soldiers
What we can learn about the conservative movement from five stalwarts
A GOOD CASE CAN BE MADE THAT THE REAL radicals of the past century weren't on the left. They were on the right. Beginning in the 1950s, William F. Buckley Jr. set out not just to purge the right of anti-Semites, but also of Rockefeller Republicans. Once Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had cleansed the party of the "wets," conservatives could get to post and assail the establishment--the liberal left, epitomized in the 1960s in the Rockefeller ...