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Article: Voice in the Wilderness.(Review)
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- National Review
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- April 30, 2001
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein (Hill and Wang, 671 pp., $30)
As Alan Brinkley observed in the American Historical Review in April 1994, "American conservatism has been something of an orphan in historical scholarship." This should be no cause for surprise; most contemporary historians are liberals, and there was no obvious reason why they should devote themselves to the objective study of a phenomenon they found it positively painful to contemplate-especially since the tale, as it unfolded across the decades, turned out to be a success story. So the modern American conservative movement has been ...