Sentences with phrase «mobilization of large numbers of people»

Her best - selling 1964 book, A Choice, Not an Echo, pushing the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, resulted in the debacle of Goldwater's landslide loss, but the long - term result was the mobilization of large numbers of people, mostly in the Midwest and South and many of them women, who were appalled at the moral havoc that the 1960s had wrought and also, as time passed, at what they perceived as America's growing defense weakness under Jimmy Carter.