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John A. Adams, James L. Buckley
For the first time tells the story of the man behind the family that would become nothing short of a conservative institution, reaching its apogee in the career of William…
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Although recognized for founding National Review, hosting television’s Firing Line, and being one of the principal architects of the American conservative movement, William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) was also a…
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William F. Buckley,, Jr.
Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy. It chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his…
Lee Edwards
Conservative historian Lee Edwards delivers a much-needed intellectual biography of William Buckley. In this concise and compelling book, Edwards reveals how Buckley did more to build the conservative movement than…
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All the virtues of Bill Buckley's earlier books are here-but this one is profoundly different. The is completed (perhaps) the end of several affairs-and the capstone volume of a diarist-journal…
David Miller
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, Jr. is more than a politically powerful Republican; he is a polysyllabic lecturer-debater, a popular syndicated columnist, the editor-in-chief of America’s most famous conservative magazine, the host…
John B. Judis
Featuring contributions by Christopher Buckley, E.J. Dionne, Dom Damian Kearney, Dom Paschal Scotti, Father George Rutler, Hon. James L. Buckley, Peter M. Flanigan, Maggie Gallagher, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Lee Edwards…
Well known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. Buckley Jr. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Getting About gathers over a hundred of…
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Alvin S. Felzenberg
A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Getting It Right has all the Buckley trademarks-wit, passion, and a heady view of political life. It is a riveting story and an original contribution to the history of the…
An intricate plot involves the restoration of war-damaged windows in a famous German chapel. When Blackford Oakes takes a sabbatical from his work with the CIA, he finds neither peace…
Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.
William F. Buckley
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…
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Blackford Oakes takes on the Russians and a top level traitor during the Cold War in this tale of treason and action-packed adventure. Buckley is the author of See You…
Tuckers Last Stand , set in 1964 Vietnam, finds Oakes working to halt infiltration by men and material coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail–and he is called upon to…
In 1952, Elizabeth II has just settled on to the throne of England, and the CIA is baffled at the breaches in security that are taking place. Worst of all…
In 1995, an ambitious US senator wanted to weaken the power of the CIA, perhaps to the point of its elimination. To accomplish his goal, he tries to enlist Blackford…
It is the summer of 1961 and the Berlin Wall is about to slam shut the last escape route out of Eastern Europe. President Kennedy needs to know what the…
Connoisseurs of the cloak-and-dagger tradition know William F. Buckley Jr as the creator of Blackford Oakes, America’s top fictional secret agent and protagonist in ten of the most thrilling spy…
William F Buckley
2016 Reprint of the 1959 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Buckley’s third book is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners…
Lawrence Perelman
In 1994, William F. Buckley, Jr., the conservative icon, received a letter from an eighteen-year-old aspiring pianist by the name of Lawrence Perelman, the son of Soviet Jewish immigrants. Buckley's…
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CIA super-secret agent, Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask a shadowy Russian mole who threatens to undermine the Free World’s defenses. Oakes turns the tables on the communists by…
Set in Havana in 1961, it places Oakes in the middle of a conspiracy with Che Guevara to bring about an era of detente in East/West relations. When Oakes is…
The year is 1963 and Fidel Castro, seeking revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis, has become an assassination target. When the CIA’s ace agent Blackford Oakes is called…
Presents a portrait of Ronald Reagan.
Richard Brookhiser
A celebrated journalist and historian chronicles his tempestuous relationship with the complex conservative iconand the movement he created
William F. Buckley Jr.
For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together…
Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends.
In 1980, Buckley gathered together his friends and set out to sail across the Atlantic. This is what he correctly describes as a "celebration" of that thirty-day event.
A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century’s greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent…
The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. This book explains why the wall was built, reveals…
William F Buckley, Jr., Jr.
The nationally bestselling exploration of the importance of religious faith in one’s life, by the world-famed social and political commentator. In highly personal terms, and with the wit and acuity…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. As a candidate, Joseph Alsop…
Nicholas Buccola
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2019.
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William F Buckley, Jr., Jr.,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…
A selection of author’s letters to readers that were published in the columns of National Review . It includes exchanges with such luminaries as Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Auberon Waugh…
A collection of speeches from occasions throughout the long life of the late William F Buckley. Beginning with the author challenging the powers at Yale University, it features Buckley addressing…
Buckley’s first political book in nearly two decades is a revealing memoir ofthe first champion of the conservative movement–Barry Goldwater.
Michael F Starr, J.D., L.L.M.
When people think of a corporation they don’t think of its board members, they think of its powerful, charismatic public face. For Starr Broadcasting, that leader was William F. Buckley…
Cecil Kuhne,William F Buckley
Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Great Britain’s mostwell-known journalists and television personalities, having interviewed practically every major public figure of his time. He shocked the world with his conversion to…
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Reprinted in paperback in 2021 with a new introduction; originally published in hardcover in 1951.
William F Jr Buckley
You are introduced, in a single volume, to a central character from each of Buckley’s ten spy novels. All stand alone in this readable, exciting, and thoughtful collection. As diverse…
