The Arizona senator sets out a conservative creed for 1960: the federal government should be held to its constitutional limits, power returned to the states, taxes and spending cut, farm subsidies and compulsory unionism ended, and communism confronted abroad. His chapters on states’ rights and civil rights argue against federal enforcement of school desegregation, positions bound up with the segregation battles of its moment.
The short book that made Goldwater a national figure, essential for understanding modern American conservatism. Download the free EPUB.