Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Rick Perlstein
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.”
“The best measure of a politician’s electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people’s desires, but how well he could tap their fears.”
“Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.”
“Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham—catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn’t make them bad people.”
“Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.”
“Scranton describing Sen. Robert A. Taft's conservatism as compared to Goldwater's said Taft was "a conservative in the truest sense of the word. He sought to conserve all the human values that have been carried down to us on a long stream of American history. He saw history as the foundation on which a better future might be built, not a Technicolor fantasy behind which the problems of the present might be concealed.”
“the task of preserving capitalism was too important to leave to the capitalists.”
“all alone to endorse Goldwater without a fight. “Fanatics of the Birch variety have fastened their fangs on the Republican Party’s flanks,” Nelligan told reporters, “and are hanging on like grim death.”
“Wartime experience as an Office of Price Administration consultant for the candy industry”
“They reported how when he took over as president of Phoenix Country Club in 1949, he said if they didn’t allow his friend Harry Rosenzweig to join he would blackball every name. Rosenzweig became the first Jew the club ever admitted. Left out of the tale was that another Jew wasn’t allowed in for a decade.”
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