Goldwater by Barry M Goldwater
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople, and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion reverberate today. This is the first popular English-language account in many years of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic rule. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for story telling, Kennedy offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life characters, fierce battles, and the great clash of civilizations and religions.Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona who ran for President in 1964 as the Republican Party's nominee. Conservative was a charismatic and outspoken personality throughout the early half of the 1960s. Goldwater is widely recognized with reviving the conservative political movement in the United States during the 1960s. He had a significant impact on the libertarian movement as well. Goldwater despised the New Deal's legacy and led a conservative coalition to oppose the New Deal coalition.
He rallied a sizable conservative base to help him win the tumultuous GOP primary. Goldwater's right-wing campaign program eventually failed to find traction with the people, and he was defeated by incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election. Johnson was elected in one of the greatest landslides in history, defeating many Republican opponents in the process. Supporters praised Johnson's crusades against the Soviet Union, labor unions, and the welfare state, while the Johnson campaign and other detractors branded him as a conservative.
Johnson and the Democrats in Congress were able to pass the Great Society initiatives as a result of his defeat, but the defeat of so many elder Republicans in 1964 also allowed a younger generation of American conservatives to mobilize. In 1964, Goldwater's role as a national conservative leader dwindled, and his followers largely rallied behind Ronald Reagan, who became governor of California in 1967 and the 40th President of the United States in 1981. In 1969, Goldwater returned to the Senate and focused on defense policy, bringing his experience as a senior officer in the Air Force Reserve to the table. The passing of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, which reconfigured the Pentagon's higher echelons by giving the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff more ability to direct military action, was undoubtedly his greatest achievement.
When evidence of a cover-up in the Watergate affair became overwhelming and impeachment was near in 1974, Goldwater successfully encouraged President Richard Nixon to retire as an elder statesman of the party. By the 1980s, the Christian right's growing influence in the Republican Party had become so incompatible with Goldwater's libertarian beliefs that he became a outspoken opponent of the religious right on topics like abortion, gay rights, and the role of religion in public life.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385239479 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385239475 |
| Title | Goldwater |
| Author | Barry M Goldwater |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1988-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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