Volume 48, Number 8 · May 17, 2001
Mr. Right
By Russell Baker
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Rick Perlstein
Hill and Wang, 671 pp., $30.00
Suburban Warriors
Lisa McGirr
Princeton University Press, 416 pp., $29.95
Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons
Guilford Press, 499 pp., $42.00; $21.95 (paper)
Barry Goldwater loved ham radio and liked to fly airplanes, was a fine photographer, had a lifelong subscription to Popular Mechanics, inherited a share of his family's department store, and as a retailer became celebrated as the creator of 'antsy-pants,' men's boxer shorts imprinted with drawings of ants crawling this way and that. He was a man's man, a guy's guy, a regular fellow. Big, handsome, square-jawed, quick to smile, easy to like. A straight-from-the-shoulder talker who'd rather tinker with his old souped-up car than go to a black-tie dinner.
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