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The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

Not sure what possessed me to read this short, famous political manifesto from 1960 but it was neat to get back to primary sources and gauge this guy’s opinions for myself; naturally I think he was mostly misguided and crazy, but he brings up a lot of interesting thoughts, particularly about self-reliance - a concept mostly ignored by conservatives today. 

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