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Article: Getting the Right Right: Liberals (and others) write conservative history.
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- National Review
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- January 28, 2002
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When Barry Goldwater spoke to the American Political Science Association two months before the 1964 election, he almost didn't have an audience: A University of Chicago professor tried to organize a boycott. It bombed, at least on that day. The doomed Republican drew a crowd and even some applause (from "a distinct minority" of his listeners, wrote a New York Times reporter who was there). Yet the boycott appears to have succeeded in another way: Ever since then, academics have chosen to ignore Goldwater and what he represented. Looking for a book on the New Left in the 1960s? Libraries overflow with volumes celebrating everything from the Stonewall riots to Malcolm X. ...
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