The Conscience of a Conservative.

GOLDWATER, Barry.

Item Number: 133832

Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Victor Publishing Company, 1960.

First edition, second printing of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To one of the staunchest- Elma- from Barry.” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

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.