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'''''The election of [[Donald Trump]] as president in 2016 was the fulfillment of the vision in this prophetic work.'''''  The ''New York Times'' credited this book with the rise of Trump and [[Jeff Sessions]], who was Trump's top nominee for his Cabinet:<ref>Sharon LaFraniere and Matt Apuzzo, "Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track," ''New York Times'' (Jan. 6, 2017).</ref>

'''''The election of [[Donald Trump]] as president in 2016 was the fulfillment of the vision in this prophetic work.'''''  The ''New York Times'' credited this book with the rise of Trump and [[Jeff Sessions]], who was Trump's top nominee for his Cabinet:<ref>Sharon LaFraniere and Matt Apuzzo, "Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track," ''New York Times'' (Jan. 6, 2017).</ref>

{{In high school, ... Mr. Sessions was fascinated by Phyllis Schlafly’s book “A Choice Not an Echo,” a catechism on the split between the Republican Party establishment and its right wing. The book enjoined true conservatives to topple the party’s kingmakers and compromisers, presaging the rise of the [[Tea Party]] and Mr. Trump — and now, Mr. Sessions himself.}}

{{cquote|In high school, ... Mr. Sessions was fascinated by Phyllis Schlafly’s book “A Choice Not an Echo,” a catechism on the split between the Republican Party establishment and its right wing. The book enjoined true conservatives to topple the party’s kingmakers and compromisers, presaging the rise of the [[Tea Party]] and Mr. Trump — and now, Mr. Sessions himself.}}

The book was written in 1964, and created space within the Republican Party for the modern conservative movement that would more fully define itself by stopping the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] in the 1970s. The book helped secure the remarkable nomination of the firebrand [[Barry Goldwater]] for [[President of the United States]].  The book detailed how the [[liberal]] "Rockefeller Republican" wing of the Republican Party had manipulated the Republican Party's choice of nominees in prior national conventions to nominate people like [[Wendell Willkie]] and [[Dwight Eisenhower]], and called on conservatives to rally against the liberal wing and offer a true conservative for the nomination.  Hence, the title of the book.  Millions of copies of this book were bought and distributed by supporters of Goldwater, making it one of the all-time best selling conservative political books in the United States.  The book helped launch the career of Phyllis Schlafly as a [[movement conservative]].

The book was written in 1964, and created space within the Republican Party for the modern conservative movement that would more fully define itself by stopping the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] in the 1970s. The book helped secure the remarkable nomination of the firebrand [[Barry Goldwater]] for [[President of the United States]].  The book detailed how the [[liberal]] "Rockefeller Republican" wing of the Republican Party had manipulated the Republican Party's choice of nominees in prior national conventions to nominate people like [[Wendell Willkie]] and [[Dwight Eisenhower]], and called on conservatives to rally against the liberal wing and offer a true conservative for the nomination.  Hence, the title of the book.  Millions of copies of this book were bought and distributed by supporters of Goldwater, making it one of the all-time best selling conservative political books in the United States.  The book helped launch the career of Phyllis Schlafly as a [[movement conservative]].