Buckley : the life and the revolution that changed America /
"At age 25 in 1951, with the publication of 'God and Man at Yale,' a scathing attack on his alma mater, William F. Buckley, Jr. instantly seized the public stage--and commanded it for the next half century, leading a new generation of activists and ideologues to the heights of politic...
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New York, NY :
Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- I: Prodigy in the making (1925-1951). Connecticut yanquis
- Devotions and blasphemies
- Tutorials
- A righteous cause
- Invoking the rules
- Inactive duty
- Full stride
- Causes lost and found
- Chairman Bill
- "We need a brigade of intellectuals"
- An almost perfect match
- Hearts and minds
- II: At odds with his time (1951-1960). Low company
- Closing ranks
- Binges
- Out of exile
- Radical conservatives
- Sounding the trumpet
- Camden in black and white
- Vestigial heat
- "The South must prevail"
- Turning the wheels
- Life support
- Saving the republic
- Young Americans
- III: Buckley's revolution (1961-1965). New frontiers
- An amazing man
- Freedom fighters
- Gnostics at the Garden
- The politics of murder
- Open revolt
- Slippery slopes
- Buckley for mayor
- IV: Controlling the message (1966-1974). Fire and ice
- "The most viable candidate"
- Under siege
- Evening the score
- Shakespeare's bard
- War crimes
- "Is there nothing left of us?"
- "The sweat of idealism"
- Playing with dynamite
- Weak and devious men
- Seductions
- V: Last campaigns (1974-2008). Blue collar vs. blue blood
- Fights and flights
- Quiet groves
- "We have a nation to run"
- Dissipations
- Mind of winter.