Volume 42, Number 19 · November 30, 1995
The Myth of Barry Goldwater
By Michael Lind
Barry Goldwater
by Robert Alan Goldberg
Yale University Press, 463 pp., $29.95
Goldwater: The Man Who Made A Revolution
by Lee Edwards
Regnery, 572 pp., $29.95
Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP
by Mary C. Brennan
University of North Carolina Press, 210 pp., $29.95
The Republicans' capture of the House and Senate in November 1994, and the possibility of a lasting realignment in their favor as the new majority party, have made an accurate understanding of the evolution of the GOP indispensable to an understanding of modern American politics. The Republican right, savoring its victory, has its own triumphalist version of history. According to the prevailing view among such conservatives as Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, the long march toward the Republican revolution of November 1994 began in 1955, when William F. Buckley, Jr., founded National Review as the vehicle for conservatives who were at odds with the then-dominant liberal orthodoxy.
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