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Judis, an editor of the newsmagazine In These Times, strives to draw a balanced, objective portrait of arch-conservative Buckley, whose politics he clearly deplores. The result is an equivocating, lobotomized biography, full of facts but lacking fire. Judis traces Buckley's "defensive... read more
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Characters/People edit
- William F. Buckley: Add a description of this character.
- Reagan
- Bill Buckley
- Mccarthy
- Barry Goldwater
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- Burnham
- Kendall
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- Vidal
- Agnew
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- Will Buckley
- Kennedy
- Christopher
- Neal Freeman
- Jim Buckley
- Johnson
- Wills
- Starr
- Aloise
- Galbraith
- Meyer
- Patricia
- Lindsay
- Carter
- Ashbrook
- Eisenhower
- Schlamm
- Beame
- Hunt
- Liebman
- Mahoney
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- Welch
- Oakes
- Priscilla
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- Paar
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- New York City
- America
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- Soviet Union
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- United States
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- White House
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- Stamford
- Catawba
- Millbrook
- Chicago
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- England
- Atlantic
- Germany
- Georgia
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- Britain
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- Maryland
- Paris
- Stalin
- New Haven
- Vancouver
- Venezuela
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- Kansas City
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First Sentence edit
In 1925, the year Bill Buckley was born, Calvin Coolidge, the dour New Englander known for his eighteenth-century apothegms, was just beginning his second term in office.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0671454943
Page Count: 544
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0671454943
Page Count: 544
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- Dewey: 320
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