The point of Rick Perlstein's animated re-creation of the Goldwater campaign is that Barry Goldwater is as much a man of the 1960s as Abbie Hoffman or Malcolm X, and, what's more, his shadow looms a good deal larger than theirs." " Before the Storm is smart and lively, and the description is delightfully thick. William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice." has produced a detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right. "Combining prodigious research with journalistic flair, Rick Perlstein. His sweeping narrative amounts to nothing less than a social history of modern conservatism." "Perlstein is a gifted writer and a talented storyteller. "One of the most stylish, riveting achievements in narrative history to appear in years." Vividly, thrillingly written, Before the Storm is already recognized as an essential book about the 1960s. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. But Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. The figure at the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the handsome renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed the federal government, despised liberals on sight, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm tells the story of the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960's - a story that, until this book, had never been told.
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