The Conscience of a Conservative

E167720

The Conscience of a Conservative is a 1960 political book that helped define modern American conservatism and popularized Barry Goldwater’s limited-government, anti-communist philosophy.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
The Conscience of a Conservative canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf book
non-fiction book
political book
advocatesPolicy free-market economics
opposition to New Deal-style federal programs
reduction of federal government power
strict constructionism
strong anti-communist foreign policy
author Barry Goldwater
chapterCount 10
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre conservatism
ghostwriter L. Brent Bozell Jr.
hasEdition 2007 50th-anniversary edition
2010 reissue
ideology classical liberalism
economic conservatism
social conservatism
influenced United States presidential election, 1964
surface form: 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign

New Right
surface form: American New Right

Goldwater movement
Ronald Reagan
modern American conservatism
language English
mainSubject American conservatism
anti-communism
constitutionalism
individual liberty
limited government
states' rights
mediaType print
notableFor helping define modern American conservatism
popularizing Barry Goldwater’s political philosophy
notableQuote "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size."
pageCount 123
politicalPosition right-wing
publicationDate 1960
publisher Victor Publishing Company
setInContextOf Cold War
subtitle A New Look at the Republican Party
topic civil rights
communism
education policy
federal spending
foreign policy
labor unions
taxation

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Conscience of a Conservative
Description of subject: The Conscience of a Conservative is a 1960 political book that helped define modern American conservatism and popularized Barry Goldwater’s limited-government, anti-communist philosophy.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Barry Goldwater notableWork The Conscience of a Conservative
Conservatives Without Conscience inspiredBy The Conscience of a Conservative
Conservatives Without Conscience titleParodies The Conscience of a Conservative