Abstract
In spring of 1960, a slim 123-page pamphlet grabbed attention of audiences across nation with a powerful restatement of conservative world view: the radi cal, or Liberal, approach has not worked and is not working. With this declaration, Senator Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative climbed to top of best-seller lists across country. Inside were ideas drawn from a decade's worth of senator's speeches and writings and research of Arizonan's ghostwriter, Brent Bozell, Wil liam F. Buckley's brother-in-law. Goldwater and Bozell condemned New Dealers and Fair Dealers as well as moderate Republicans, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, because they were allowing socialism to subordinate all other considerations to man's material well-being.1 Conscience of a Conservative was an outcry against New Deal order for Goldwater and American conservatives who followed his lead. It touched on
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