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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have": First Edition of Barry Goldwaters Influential Classic Work The Conscience of A Conservative; Inscribed by Him To Ayn Rand
GOLDWATER, BARRY [AYN RAND].
The Conscience of a Conservative.
Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Victor Publishing Company 1960.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Ayn Rand with admiration- Barry Goldwater.” “In 1960, Senator Barry Goldwater wrote to Ayn Rand to thank her for defending the “conservative position” he believed they shared during her famous appearance on “The Mike Wallace Interview,” adding, “I have enjoyed very few books as much in my life as I have yours, Atlas Shrugged. Rand considered the fiscally conservative, fiercely anti-Communist Goldwater to be the most promising politician of his day” (Heller). Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association, linking two of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 133270