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Arlington House [Published Date: 1967]. Hardcover, 450 pp. No other printings listed. Acceptable in acceptable dust jacket. Cream cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Moderate age spotting to covers. Binding tight. Price sticker residue on top corner of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. A good reading copy [From jacket flaps] This is the definitive account of the Draft Goldwater movement - the handful of GOP conservatives who engineered the first Presidential draft in American history. They baffled the press, bewildered the pros, battered the opposition, and won the nomination for Barry Goldwater by the largest margin ever recorded in a contested convention. As author-columnist Robert Novak has written, it was "one of the most remarkable clandestine operations in American political history." For their pains - and they were often sharp, and prolonged - the Draft Goldwater team was sent to the sidelines in the general election campaign. And still they came up with what is now recognized as the most effective extra-party effort in political memory: Citizens for Goldwater-Miller. This is an inspiriting story, and F. Clifton White tells it well. He should. Clif White was at ground zero. . . . From Suite 3505 - two small, sparsely furnished rooms in New York's Chanin Building - White directed the nationwide effort to spark and coordinate the disarrayed legions of conservatism. . . White goes back to the "secret" meeting in Chicago which was destined to reshape the GOP, the meticulous state-by-state search for delegates, the unyielding reluctance of Goldwater himself, the staggering blow of the Kennedy assassination, the unflagging support of the original Suite 3505 group, the "Arizona Mafia," and finally, sweet victory - embittered by an unexpected sting. Suite 3505 is both a dramatic human story' and, in its interstices, a manual of advanced Presidential politics . . . Included also, for reference and recollection, are Goldwater's famous speeches on the nuclear test ban and civil rights, his acceptance speech, the notorious letter from Governor Scranton and the roll call tally from the 1964 convention. Here is how political history is made, by a man who made it.