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Turning Right in the Sixties - The Conservative Capture of the GOP (Paperback, New edition)
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Turning Right in the Sixties - The Conservative Capture of the GOP (Paperback, New edition)
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In Turning Right in the Sixties, Mary Brennan describes how
conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds, feeling
disfranchised and ignored, joined forces to make their voices heard
and by 1968 had gained enough power within the party to play the
decisive role in determining who would be chosen as the
presidential nominee. Building on Barry Goldwater's shortlived bid
for the presidential nomination in 1960, Republican conservatives
forged new coalitions, aided by an increasingly vocal conservative
press, and began to organize at the grassroots level. Their goal
was to nominate a conservative in the next election, and eventually
they gained enough support to guarantee Goldwater the nomination in
1964. Liberal Republicans, as Brennan demonstrates, failed to stop
this swing to the right. Brennan argues that Goldwater's loss to
Lyndon Johnson in the general election has obscured the more
significant fact that conservatives had wrestled control of the
Republican Party from the moderates who had dominated it for years.
The lessons conservatives learned in that campaign aided them in
1968 when they were able to force Richard Nixon to cast himself as
a conservative candidate, says Brennan, and also laid the
groundwork for Ronald Reagan's presidential victory in 1980.
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