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In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving,... (more)

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater

by William F. Buckley

William F. Buckley Jr.'s first political book in nearly two decades is a revealing memoir of the first champion of the conservative movement. If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward.... (more)

Right Time, Right Place

by Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser wrote his first cover story for National Review at age fourteen, and became the magazine’s youngest senior editor at twenty-three. William F. Buckley Jr. was Brookhiser’s mentor, hero, and admirer; within a year of Brookhiser’s arrival at the magazine, Buckley tapped him as his successor as editor-in-chief. But without warning, the relation ship soured—one day, Brookhiser returned to his desk... (more)

God and Man at Yale

by William F. Buckley Jr.

In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into the public spotlight.

The Reagan I Knew

by Jr. Buckley, William F.

In The Regan I Knew , the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and Buckley were political allies and close friends throughout Reagan’s political career. They went on vacations together and shared inside jokes. When Reagan was elected... (more)

Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith

Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith

by Jr. Buckley, William F., William F. Buckley

This is the story of one man's faith, told with unrivaled reflection and candor. William F. Buckley, Jr., was raised a Catholic. As the world plunged into war, and as social mores changed dramatically around him, Buckley's faith -- a most essential part of his make-up -- sustained him. In Nearer, My God, Buckley examines in searching detail the meaning of his faith, and how his life has been shaped and sustained... (more)

Buckley: The Right Word (Harvest Book)

by William F. Buckley

Buckley’s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume - a “veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library” (Library Journal). Edited by Samuel S. Vaughan.

William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives

William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives

by John B. Judis

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 clannishness," his arrogance and competitiveness to an overwhelming need for approval from his father, a Texas oil millionaire. He... (more)

Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement

Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement

by Linda Bridges

An affectionate portrait of the man who started it all "With this graceful homage to Bill Buckley, two people who have known the pleasure of his company as friends and colleagues place him where he incontestably belongs--at the center of the conservative political movement that moved the center of American politics to the right." --George F. Will, Newsweek "Strictly Right paints an intimate... (more)

Gratitude

by Jr. William F. Buckley

William F. Buckley, Jr., "Mr. Conservative," believes that something must be done to revive our youth's indifference to today's government and politics. In GRATITUDE he offers a plan for universal voluntary national service for men and women 18 years of age and older. Here are his suggestions for how such a program might be structured and administered; on the inducements and sanctions appropriate to its... (more)

Quotations from Chairman Bill The Best Of Williamm F. Buckley JrWilliam F. Jr. Compiled by David Franke Buckley

Quotations from Chairman Bill The Best Of Williamm F. Buckley Jr

by William F. Jr. Compiled by David Franke Buckley

Last Call for Blackford Oakes (Blackford Oakes Novel)

Last Call for Blackford Oakes (Blackford Oakes Novel)

by William F. Buckley

More than twenty years ago William F. Buckley Jr. launched the dashing character of Blackford Oakes like a missile over the literary landscape. This newly minted CIA agent-brainy, bold, and complex-began his career by saving the queen of England and quickly took his place in the pantheon of master spies drawn up by Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré. Against the backdrop of sinister Cold War... (more)

On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures

On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures

by Jr. William F. Buckley

Firing Line , Buckley's TV interview program, has been around since 1966, and his guests, whose feisty talks are included in this scrapbook, have included Henry Kissinger, Michael Harrington, Roy Cohn, Yehudi Menuhin, Alan Paton, Steve Allen, Truman Capote, Jimmy Hoffa, Norman Mailer, Muhammad Ali, Timothy Leary, Al Capp, Jeremy Rifkin and Margaret Thatcher, to list a few. Quoting such folk should make for some... (more)

Saving The Queen: A Blackford Oakes Novel (Blackford Oakes Novel S.)

Saving The Queen: A Blackford Oakes Novel (Blackford Oakes Novel S.)

by Jr. Buckley, William F.

America's top financial secret agent Blackford Oakes performed his first heroic effort in SAVING THE QUEEN in which William F. Buckley Jr. coaxes readers back to the earliest days of the Cold War. The year is 1951. Harry Truman is president, and the beautiful, young Queen Caroline has just settled onto the throne of England. The CIA is baffled at the shocking things going on in London. Vital Western military... (more)

A Very Private Plot: A Blackford Oakes Novel

A Very Private Plot: A Blackford Oakes Novel

by William F. Buckley

The year is 1995, and an ambitious U.S. senator wants to weaken the power of the CIA, perhaps to the point of its elimination. To accomplish this goal, he tries to enlist Blackford Oakes—now retired—into his cause by forcing him to testify before a senate committee about CIA covert activities in 1985. The senator wants to know what President Ronald Reagan did when informed of a plot by Soviet veterans of the... (more)

Mongoose, R.I.P: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)

Mongoose, R.I.P: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)

by William E. Buckley

The year is 1963. Fidel Castro seeks revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis while President Kennedy and his brother Robert have their own plan for ending the menance of the Caribbean dictator. It's called Operation Mongoose. Blackford Oakes, the CIA's urbane ace agent, becomes point man in the plot. Then Oakes learns there is a counterplan, one that scripts Oakes out of the play! "In many... (more)

Tucker's Last Stand: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)

Tucker's Last Stand: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)

by William F. Buckley Jr.

As LBJ and Goldwater vie for the White House, Blackford Oakes plays with dynamite in the Tonkin Gulf and Major Tucker Montana, a Texan, designs a system to block the North Vietnamese's route. Reprint. NYT.

Who's on First: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)

Who's on First: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)

by Jr. Buckley, William F.

The celebrated author of Tucker's Last Stand and Stained Glass offers a chilling story set against the backdrop of the cold war space race. Blackford Oakes heads a mission to kidnap a pair of extraordinary Russian scientists who can put the U.S. ahead in the race for space, unaware that KGB spymaster Bolgin is hot on his trail.

The Story of Henri Tod: A Blackford Oakes Novel

The Story of Henri Tod: A Blackford Oakes Novel

by William F. Buckley

In this mesmerizing tale of espionage set in 1961 Berlin, Blackford Oakes links up with Henri Tod, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's madness dedicated to preserving freedom in his homeland. When Tod learns of the plans for the Berlin Wall, Oakes knows he must stop Tod from taking action.

Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel (Blackford Oakes Novel)

Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel (Blackford Oakes Novel)

by William F. Buckley

On assignment to restore a 13th-century German chapel, Blackford Oakes learns that its owner is far more than a charming aristocrat. The charismatic Wintergrin is rousing his countrymen to reunite Germany. Now, Oakes must either pull the fatal switch on his friend, or find a way to change the rules. From the bestselling author of Tucker's Last Stand.

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