Barry Goldwater’s ‘Conscience of a Conservative’ Chapter 1 So…onto chapter 2. ‘The Perils of Power’ Goldwater’s opening paragraph hits with both fists. The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called “A Democrat Looks at His Party’ , “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to … Continue reading Barry Goldwater’s ‘Conscience of a Conservative’ Chapter 2