The Conscience of a Conservative.

GOLDWATER, Barry [Ayn Rand].

$18,000.00

Item Number: 133270

Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Victor Publishing Company, 1960.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Ayn Rand with admiration- Barry Goldwater.” In 1960, Senator Barry Goldwater wrote to Ayn Rand to thank her for defending the “conservative position” he believed they shared during her famous appearance on “The Mike Wallace Interview,” adding, “I have enjoyed very few books as much in my life as I have yours, Atlas Shrugged. Rand considered the fiscally conservative, fiercely anti-Communist Goldwater to be the most promising politician of his day” (Heller). Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association, linking two of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.

The Conscience of a Conservative is Barry Goldwater's classic which re-ignited the American conservative movement and made him a political star. The term "Goldwater conservative" became a household word. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States, helping to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution. "The book lays out, clearly and succinctly, [Goldwater's] uncompromising views. Goldwater held freedom as the highest value in American society: freedom from law, freedom from government, freedom from anybody else's vision but your own. You can argue with him on the particulars, but there's something compelling about his quintessentially American notion of self-reliance" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923.