Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Goldwater’s Arizona and Arizona’s Goldwater 1 The Conscience of a Conservationist: Barry Goldwater and the Colorado River Andrew Needham 19 2 Drafting a Movement: Barry Goldwater and the Rebirth of the Arizona Republican Party Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 43 3 Southwestern Strategy: Mexican Americans and Republican Politics in the Arizona Borderlands Micaela Anne Larkin 66 Part II. The Goldwater Moment 4 Getting to Goldwater: Robert A. Taft, William F. Knowland, and the Rightward Drift of the Republican Party Michael Bowen 87 5 The Dealers and the Darling: Conservative Media and the Candidacy of Barry Goldwater Nicole Hemmer 114 Contents vi Contents 6 Goldwater in Dixie: Race, Region, and the Rise of the Right Joseph Crespino 144 7 Goldwater’s “Moral Mothers”: Miscalculations of Gender in the 1964 Republican Presidential Campaign Michelle Nickerson 170 Part III. Beyond 1964 and Goldwater Conservatism 8 Phoenix’s Cowboy Conservatives in Washington Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 193 9 Green Goldwater: Barry Goldwater, Federal Environmentalism, and the Transformation of Modern Conservatism Brian Allen Drake 214 10 Time Is an Elusive Companion: Jesse Helms, Barry Goldwater, and the Dynamic of Modern Conservatism William A. Link 238 Afterword: Barry Goldwater in History and Memory Robert Alan Goldberg 259 About the Contributors 271 Index 275 ...