# A Glorious Disaster

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- Book: [A Glorious Disaster](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-william-middendorf/a-glorious-disaster) ([A Glorious Disaster.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-william-middendorf/a-glorious-disaster.md))
- Authors: [J. William Middendorf](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-william-middendorf)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6504-574-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-04-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Barry Goldwater's 1964 run for the presidency was one of the major political turning points of the twentieth century: The policy positions and electoral strategies of that campaign have become standard tenets of Republican politics. A member of the Draft Goldwater" movement as early as 1962, Bill Middendorf had better than a ringside seat for this pivotal event and knows its inside story better than anyone else. A Glorious Disaster tells that story in all its rollicking, agonizing, and never-before-published detail.