Barry Goldwater


 

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. A five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-87), he was the Republican Party candidate for the U.S. President in the 1964 election which he lost to Lyndon B. Johnson.

Further reading and Sources

  • Clark, Jerome. The UFO Encyclopedia, Volume One: UFO's in the 1980's; Apogee Books, 1990, ISBN 1558883010
  • Goldwater, Barry. 1960. The Conscience of a Conservative (ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell), which has been called the "one great political treatise promulgated by a single man and then used as a campaign platform."
  • Goldwater, Barry with Jack Casserly. 1988. Goldwater. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385239475
  • Perlstein, Rick. 2001. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 080902859X
  • Randles, Jenny. The UFO Conspiracy: The First Forty Years. Barnes and Noble Books, 1987; ISBN 1566191955
  • Wendland, Michael F. 1988. The Arizona Project: How a team of investigative reporters got revenge on deadline Mark Siegel; Revised edition (August 1, 1988) ISBN 0945165021

~ Table of Content ~

Introduction
Personal background
Political career
U.S. presidential election, 1964
Goldwater and the revival of American conservatism
Goldwater and UFOs
Quotes
Further reading and Sources
External links

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