Flying High

Remembering Barry Goldwater

By: William Buckley

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Paperback | 9 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward. But the policy intellectuals knew that to actually change the way the country was run, they needed a presidential candidate, and the man they turned to was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was in many ways the perfect choice: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably honest and dashingly handsome, with a devoted following that grew throughout the fifties and early sixties. He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't't bend his opinions to make himself more popular, he insisted on using his own inexperienced advisors to run his presidential campaign, and in the end he electrified a large portion of the electorate but lost the great majority. Flying High is Buckley's partly fictional tribute to the man who was in many ways his alter ego in the conservative movement. It is the story of two men who looked as if they were on the losing side of political events, but were kept aloft by the conviction that in fact they were making history.

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Introduction	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
Stirrings in Chicago	p. 9
Young Americans for Freedom	p. 21
Early Days at National Review	p. 27
An Unwelcoming Committee for Khrushchev	p. 35
Khrushchev Tours America	p. 39
Goldwater-Bozell: Seeking Victory over Communism	p. 53
Goldwater and the Labor Unions	p. 59
Plotting at Palm Beach	p. 65
Flying over the Grand Canyon	p. 71
Internal Strife: The Baroody Factor	p. 79
"Barry's Going to Run"	p. 85
The Conscience of a Conservative	p. 89
In the Snows of New Hampshire	p. 103
Ebullience in California	p. 111
Rockefeller Looks Ahead	p. 125
Goldwater's Youth Movement	p. 131
The Campaign Strategy	p. 139
"Extremism in the Defense of Liberty"	p. 143
The Ghost of JFK	p. 155
Heading Home	p. 159
The Eve of Disaster	p. 163
Reagan: A Fresh Star	p. 167
The Vision of Karl Hess	p. 171
Eisenhower's Steely Analysis	p. 177
Flying High	p. 183
Coda	p. 189
Acknowledgments	p. 193
Index	p. 197
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