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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comRADICALS FOR CAPITALISM 205His belief in the power and efficacy of free markets endeared him tothe independent business owners who formed the backbone of hisorganization.Young Goldwater enthusiasts quickly noticed that he seemed to perfectlyembody Rand’s iconography of the independent, manly hero.Jerome Tuccille, an avid libertarian, remembered, “More importantthan his message was the fact that Goldwater managed to look the partas though he had been made for it. . . . One look at him and you knew hebelonged in Galt’s Gulch, surrounded by striking heroes with blazingeyes and lean, dynamic heroines with swirling capes.” The campaign’sstudent arm was saturated with Rand fans, as one MIT student remembered.He joined YAF and Students for Goldwater, only to find that“Most of the key people in both groups (which mostly overlapped) wereObjectivists, and I kept getting into discussions of Rand’s ideas withouthaving read the books.” The connection between Rand and Goldwater’scampaign was cemented by Karl Hess, a dedicated NBI student and oneof Goldwater’s chief speechwriters. Hess sprinkled Randian parlanceliberally throughout his boss’s speeches. “There were strong echoesfrom the novelist of romantic capitalism, Ayn Rand,” the WashingtonStar noted of one Goldwater speech. 41As the campaign wore on, Rand was outraged to see Goldwater caricaturedas a racist by the mass media. It was true that both she andGoldwater opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a litmus test of liberalacceptability, but neither she nor Goldwater was truly prejudiced. Randinveighed against racism as “the lowest, most crudely primitive formof collectivism,” and Goldwater had integrated his family’s businessyears before and was even a member of the NAACP. But Goldwater’slibertarianism trumped his racial liberalism. He was among a handfulof senators who voted against the bill, a sweeping piece of legislationintended to address the intractable legacy of racial discrimination in theSouth. Goldwater’s vote was based on principles he had held for years.A firm supporter of state’s rights, he was alarmed at the expansive powersgranted the federal government under the act. Following the analysisof his friends William Rehnquist and Robert Bork, he also believed theact was unconstitutional because it infringed on private property rights.In the scrum of electoral politics such distinctions were academic.Goldwater’s vote went down as a vote for segregation.