"The Welfare State"
Nonfiction work
By: Barry M. Goldwater
Date: 1960
Source: Goldwater, Barry M. "The Welfare State." Chapter Eight in The Conscience of a Conservative, by Barry M. Goldwater. New York: MacFadden Capitol Hill, 1960, 70–77.
About the Author: Barry Morris Goldwater (1909–1998), a native of Arizona, served in the United States Senate from 1953 to 1965 and again from 1969 to 1987. He was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee in 1964, losing in a landslide to Democratic incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson (served 1963–1969). Goldwater is considered the father of the modern American conservative movement known as the "New Right."
Introduction
The year 1960 marked the beginning of a new epoch in American political history with the sudden emergence of a vigorous Conservative movement that became known as the "New Right." And the hitherto obscure Arizona...
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