In this book, published in 1976, conservative politician Barry Goldwater, explains that like near the end of the Roman Empire, America has come to a crossroads and that Americans must act now in order the avoid a collapse as in the Roman Empire.

The Coming Breakpoint

Barry M. Goldwater

Macmillan

For twenty-five years, America's most universally respected political figure has kept a secret: his private Alpha File that candidly records his private encounters with Kennedy, Carter, and other world leaders; chronicles the savage political infighting he has witnessed; and tells honestly why we lost the war in Vietnam and what we must do to restore America's greatness.

With No Apologies

Biographies & Memoirs

BERKLEY

Excerpt from Why Not Victory: A Fresh Look at American Foreign Policy Young people are discovering that, contrary to What they might have been told in school, conservatism is not dead. Conservatism IS a natural philosophy which recognizes man as having a spiritual and a material side, and that the two are intertwined. One cannot be affected without a reaction taking place in the other. Consequently as the focus is placed on the material side, the Spiritual Side weakens. From this comes a weakening of man which can today be seen in our apathy toward crime in all categories, in man's greater and greater reliance on a government for the solu tion of his daily problems, and in man's reluctance to face the real dangers loose in the world today. Conservatism being a natural philosophy, the young have little trouble recognizing its value. It is not difficult to show them that changing the nature of man by edict is impossible and that trying to change the pattern of our economic system by applying to it theories tried and found wanting in the past simply does not make good sense. Some people believe that conservatism is applicable only to economics. In their minds conservatism has become a sort of exercise in bookkeeping, Which it isn't at all. Its truths can be applied to every problem and situation which we have before us today and which will crop up in the future. It is my hope that this book will demonstrate this to the readers' satisfaction in the field of foreign affairs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Why Not Victory: A Fresh Look at American Foreign Policy (Classic Reprint)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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The book that established the intellectual ground for the modern American conservative movement\nIt was 1960. The Cold War churned, and the rules of civil society were rapidly changing as the dust settled on The New Deal, an epic American experiment in Big Government. Was this a good course to follow? According to Barry Goldwater, then an Arizona senator and future Republican nominee for President of the United States, the answer lay in the Constitution and other foundational documents, not the expansion of government. In The Conscience of a Conservative, Goldwater makes a coherent argument for governmental restraint and for applying the wisdom and experience of the past to modern issues; in Goldwater's view, this conservative approach is as timeless as the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments. His effort to "bridge the gap between theory and practice" brought the conservative ethos to the fore of modern day America. 
One reviewer likened The Conscience of a Conservative to "Common Sense for the modern mind." Even progressives and independents praise Goldwater for his "thoughtful and intelligent prose." This seminal work is one of the most influential modern conservative texts, which helped to transform American conservatism into a practical political philosophy and laid the foundation for the rise of Ronald Reagan. It is an essential treatise for anyone following American political thought and history. 
Also available from Echo Point Books in paperback, ISBN 1635616875.

The Conscience of a Conservative

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

The conscience of a conservative (Korean Edition)

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