{"product_id":"before-the-storm-barry-goldwater-and-the-unmaking-of-the-american-consensus-paperback","title":"Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRick Perlstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice\" (William Kristol, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, conservatives--editor William F. Buckley Jr., John Birch Society leader Robert Welch, and thousands of students--formed a movement to challenge the center-left consensus. They chose as their hero Barry Goldwater--a rich, handsome Arizona Republican who scorned the federal bureaucracy, reviled détente, despised liberals on sight--and grew determined to see him elected President. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Goldwater was trounced by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. But by the campaign's end the consensus found itself squeezed from the left and the right; and two decades later, the conservatives had elected Ronald Reagan as President and Goldwater's ideas had been adopted by Republicans and Democrats alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The story of the rise of conservatism during a liberal era has never been told, and Rick Perlstein's gutsy narrative history is full of portraits of figures from Nelson Rockefeller to Bill Moyers. Perlstein argues that the 1964 election led to a key shift in U.S. politics--from concerns over threats from abroad to concerns about disorder at home; from campaigns plotted in back rooms to those staged for television.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRick Perlstein\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eReaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America\u003c\/i\u003e. His reviews, reporting, and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times, The New York Observer, The New Republic, The Washington Post, London Review of Books, Columbia Journalism Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for independent scholars. He lives in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 704\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.85 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45335092363308,"sku":"9781568584126","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/JqqlbzlGGl9781568584126.webp?v=1781484433","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/before-the-storm-barry-goldwater-and-the-unmaking-of-the-american-consensus-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}