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Pure Goldwater by John W. Dean, Barry M. Goldwater

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4.0

Call it "Pure BS" or "The Hypocrisy of a Conservative"

Goldwater can't admit he was wrong about the Vietnam War.

Even worse, he, as a typical Western libertarian conservative, can say things such as "sell the Tennessee Valley Authority" but yet, never call on the Bureau of Reclamation to privatize the dams and damned lakes on the Colorado.

So, why 4 stars?

Precisely because this book well shows his hypocrisy, and secondarily, because it shows that, while John Dean regularly criticized W, he's no liberal.

Other than that, the book's more a 2-star job, poorly edited, overall, by Dean and Barry Jr., and with some copyediting issues too
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