Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

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"A magnificent achievement-a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America's premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century."-Max Boot, author of Reagan: His Life and Legend "Exposes the roots of the modern conservative movement . . . authoritative . . . As Buckley's only authorized biographer, Tanenhaus draws from troves of his private papers and extensive interviews with the man himself."-The New York Times In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale, a scathing attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr., seized the public stage-and commanded it for the next half century as he led a new generation of conservative activists and ideologues to the peak of political power and cultural influence. Ten years before his death in 2008, Buckley chose prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full, uncensored story of his life and times, granting him extensive interviews and exclusive access to his most private papers. Thus began a deep ...