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Before the Storm
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Before the Storm (2001) (edit title/settings)

Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

by Rick Perlstein (Author) (edit contributors)

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Before the Storm begins in a time much like the present--the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.

But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, conservatives--editor William F. Buckley Jr., John... read more

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Imagine you lived in a town of twenty, or fifty, or one hundred thousand souls -- in Indiana, perhaps, or Illinois, or Missouri, or Tennessee -- with a colonnaded red-brick city hall at its center, a Main Street running its breadth, avenues rimmed with modest bungalows and named for trees and exotic heroes and local luminaries, interrupted at intervals by high-steepled churches.

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Preface

PART ONE
1. THE MANIONITES
2. MERCHANT PRINCE
3. WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE WORLD
4. CONSCIENCE
5. THE MEETING OF THE BLUE AND WHITE NILE

PART TWO
6. QUICKENING
7. STORIES OF ORANGE COUNTY
8. APOCALYPTICS
9. OFF YEAR
10. SUITE 3505
11. MOBS

PART THREE
12. NEW MOOD IN POLITICS
13. GRANITE STATE
14. PRESIDENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE
15. UNITED AND AT PEACE WITH ITSELF
16. GOLDEN STATE
17. DUTY
18. CONVENTIONS

PART FOUR
19. DON'T MENTION THE GREAT PUMPKIN
20. CAMPAIGN TRAILS
21. CITIZENS
22. FOREGONE CONCLUSIONS

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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Perlstein gives the name of Burt Lancaster's character in the film "Seven Days in May" on page 283 as "William Maltoon Scott". The name of his character in the film is James Matoon Scott.

On page 493, Perlstein states that Harold Wilson "was ousted as Prime Minister"on October 15, 1964. In fact, Harold Wilson had just won the general election as head of the Labour Party; it was Alec Douglas-Home who was ousted from the premiership.

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  1. Rick Perlstein (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 080902859X
Page Count: 687

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  • Library of Congress: E748.G64 P37 2001
  • Dewey: 973

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