Barry Goldwater (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Alan Goldberg
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1909 to the 1990’s
- Setting: Arizona and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Barry M. Goldwater, Peggy Johnson Goldwater, Baron Goldwater, Josephine Williams Goldwater, Michel Goldwasser, Richard M. Nixon, Harry Rosenzweig
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, Jews or Jewish life, Conservatism, Elections, Politicians, Presidents, Republican Party
- Locales: Washington, D.C., Arizona
According to Robert Alan Goldberg, Barry Goldwater’s resilient popularity is the result of his blunt, no-nonsense style, his citizen-politician image, and his advocacy of conservatism and anti-Sovietism. Goldberg believes that there is a more complicated man beneath the popular image. Yet the contradictions he finds are often merely refutations of his liberal preconceptions rather than examples of Goldwater’s inconsistency. Goldberg’s liberalism and his position as an unauthorized biographer should serve as a caveat to readers. In choosing to point out Goldwater’s liberal...
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