Just right [electronic resource] : a life in pursuit of liberty / Lee Edwards
- Author
- Edwards, Lee, 1932-
- Additional Titles
- Life in pursuit of liberty
- Published
- Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, [2017]
- Physical Description
- vi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Contents
- Cradle conservative -- Paris holiday -- The movement -- Rebels with a cause -- Reluctant champion -- The day Kennedy died -- Decision time -- A choice, not an echo -- The real Barry Goldwater -- The must primary -- Civil rights and the constitution -- Convention -- Things that matter -- Extremism and liberty -- Anything goes -- Let Goldwater be Goldwater -- Landslide -- 27 million americans can't be wrong -- On my own -- Author, author -- The "voice" of the silent majority -- Square power -- The rabbi and the president -- The new right -- The changing face of conservatism -- Captive nations and peoples -- Leaving the arena -- Back to school -- Defalcation -- Missionaries for freedom -- "Dear Bill" -- The making of a memorial -- The final step -- Dedication day -- Chimera? -- Trumped -- Coda.
- Summary
- "Lee Edwards is a historian of the conservative movement who has been present at nearly every major event of the modern conservative movement. His memoir reveals his insider account of Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; how he first interviewed Ronald Reagan when the actor was thinking of running for governor; how he created the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, and much more."--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN
- 9781610171458 (hardcover)
- Note
- Includes index.
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