[PROTEST BROADSIDE AGAINST CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISM]. What About the Hate Books

Washington DC: Democratic National Committee, 1964. First Edition. Very good. Broadside (8 1/2" x 14"), printed on both sides on slightly tan-tinted paper, folded horizontally as issued (two corners slightly curled). In very fresh state, suitable for exhibition and study. AN UNPRECEDENTED BROADSIDE ISSUED BY THE 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, DENOUNCING THREE PUBLICATIONS DISTRIBUTED FREELY BY SUPPORTERS OF FAR-RIGHT EXTREMIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARRY GOLDWATER. THIS BROADSIDE IS TANTAMOUNT TO A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS DEEMED MOST DANGEROUS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ITSELF.

Not in OCLC. Indeed, we have been unable to find a single reference to this remarkable broadside. It was issued under the auspices of the DNC to warn its constituents to the outrageously false polemics of the following three self-published Conservative propaganda, all distributed free of charge by workers of Goldwater's campaign:

1. "A Texan Looks at Lyndon" by racist segregationist J. Evett Haley ("a study in unhospitalized paranoia");
2. "A Choice Not an Echo" by infamous ERA opponent and covert John Bircher Phillis Schafley;
3. "None Dare Call it Treason" by anti-Communist far-right lunatic extremist John Stormer.

To the above are added two "Hate-Filled Tabloids [likewise] being distributed by Goldwater workers": Liberty Lobby Presents (anti-Semitic and racist, "on the extreme fringe of the radical right") and Human Events (opposing Social Security; available by subscription through the John Birch Society).

Indeed, numerous scholars link the rise of extreme-right GOP presidential candidates to THIS 1964 election. Even though Goldwater was utterly defeated by moderate Democrat Lyndon Johnson, his controversial politics sparked the Republican Party's ultra-conservative faction, which has only continued to increase. Tragically, Goldwater's 1964 campaign merely foreshadowed Donald Trump's monstrous 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential election campaigns.

"Goldwater was, without doubt, a divisive figure: Democratic detractors like Martin Luther King. Jr. and then-California Governor Pat Brown had compared his blunt, pull-no-punches rhetoric to Hitler. Within his own party, moderates responded with varying degrees of dismay or horror to his policies. [...] But while his own bid for the White House flamed out, the embers of Goldwater's political philosophy -- championing small government and individual freedoms -- would ignite the party's conservative wing for decades to come." (SOURCE: Suzanne McGee, "How Barry Goldwater Brought the Far Right to Center Stage in the 1964 Presidential Race," History Channel Online, article dated 2/26/24).

A TERRIFYING DOCUMENT: TRAGICALLY THE WARNINGS OF 1964 WENT UNHEEDED AND THE FABRIC OF THE FORMERLY UNITED STATES HAS BECOME UTTERLY ABRADED, PERHAPS IRREPARABLY.