In The Winning Side, Ralph de Toledano, in few words, has written one of the most comprehensive and closely reasoned political commentaries of our time.
The book was off the press prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. De Toledano, therefore, presupposes a Goldwater-Kennedy battle for the Presidency in 1964 and his prognosis of the election is based on that supposition. In the wake of the tragic event, in which our President was struck down by a Marxist killer, many of the observations and prognostications of The Winning Side will have to be rethought. The basic thesis advanced by de Toledano is, however, still valid and the work still must be regarded as an important contribution to the argument for a Goldwater nomination by the Republican Party.
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