The Conscience of a Conservative
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The Conscience of a Conservative (Library of Congress Catalogue Card #60-12269) is a book published under the name of Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1960. The book was ghostwritten for Senator Goldwater by L. Brent Bozell Jr.
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- Author = Barry Goldwater
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- Genre = Politics
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- Publication Date = 1960
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The 1960 MacFadden edition is 127 pages in length and was published in the United States. The book covers such topics as education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. The book is considered to be a significant statement of politically and economically American conservative ideas which were to gain influence during the following decades.
The book continues to inspire contemporary political commentary. John Dean's 2006 book Conservatives without Conscience, for example, draws both its title and some of its principles from Goldwater's book. Senator Zell Miller's 2003 critique of the Democratic Party, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat also draws the inspiration for its title from Goldwater's work. In 2002, Senator Paul Wellstone entitled his own book The Conscience of a Liberal, saying in the introduction that he wanted his work to stand as a counterpoint to Goldwater's.
