William F. Buckley, JR., Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-47818-2
Buckley's account of a 1930s and '40s Catholic childhood spent at English boarding school--and of a family life spent traveling Europe, living in huge homes peopled with butlers and beloved tutors--will not whistle up similar memories for most...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Little Brown and Company $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-11589-6
As a fictionalized biography, Buckleys portrait of red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy is an earnest but plodding affair that occasionally yields intimate descriptions of the dynamic yet flawed leader who exploited fear of communism in the nooks and
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-385-47794-9
Danny O'Hara is exuberant, generous, ambitious--and the grandson of the recently deceased Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Henry Chafee is quiet and deliberate, from a pleasant but undistinguished family. The two, former roommates at Yale, are sharing a...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author William Morrow & Company $20 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-12795-4
Smooth and skillful, but only mildly suspenseful, the 10th Blackford Oakes adventure brings the Cold War hero into the age of glasnost and beyond. The year is 1995. Senator Hugh Blanton, who is framing a bill that would effectively ban all covert...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Random House Large Print Publishing $21.95 (486p) ISBN 978-0-394-58858-2
Occupied more by politics than adventure, Buckley builds his ninth Blackford Oakes tale ( Mongoose, R.I.P ) around the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by Congress a few months prior to the 1964 U.S. presidential election. CIA operative Blackie and...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Random House (NY) $16.95 (169p) ISBN 978-0-394-57674-9
Should young people be conscripted by the government to perform one year of nonmilitary service in environmental projects, in teaching, drug education, snow removal, community outreach and the like? A national-service bill now before Congress would...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-394-55931-5
Arguably, this is the best of the Blackford Oakes series. Since we first met him at a callow 26, in Saving the Queen, Oakes has maturedhe's become more worn around the edges, less abrasive and, as a result, more likable. It is now 1963; Castro and...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Little Brown and Company $10.95 (454p) ISBN 978-0-316-11444-8
Selected by Brookhiser, a National Review editor, these 100 pieces include political commentary, an essay about the public's reaction to Buckley's autobiographical book Overdrive and a eulogy for Buckley's mother. ""Buckley at his brilliant, biting...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-385-19443-3
Buckley's almostparfit knight Blackford Oakes is in England during 1954 at the start of the seventh story of his escapades. A joint British-American commando team parachutes into Albania to liberate the country but is immediately caught and killed....
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Little Brown and Company $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-11448-6
Buckley and his companions sail the Pacific, from Honolulu to Kavieng, New Ireland, on a 30-day cruise, for which the world's consummate sybarite packed 25 cases of vintage wine and untold quantities of peanut butter. ``Buckley fans will have as...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author . Harcourt $25 (344p) ISBN 978-0-15-100643-4
Departing from his National Review
persona and his spy master series, the erudite Buckley (Spytime) concocts a charmingly sympathetic tale tracing the fictional relationship between a young boy and the King. Buckley captures the hope, the yearning,
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Harcourt $25 (348p) ISBN 978-0-15-600754-2
One might expect pundit and bestselling author Buckley (Spytime; Elvis in the Morning) to offer a revisionist take on the Nuremberg trials, filtered through his uniquely erudite conservative consciousness. But there's little that's fresh or...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Regnery $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-89526-138-0
Author, columnist and National Review
founder Buckley offers a sentimental bildungsroman about a young man's initiation into the mid-century American conservative movement. In 1956, a 19-year-old Mormon missionary, Woodroe Raynor, is assigned...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Regnery $29.95 (594p) ISBN 978-0-89526-089-5
The conservative writer and Firing Line
host has published so many millions of words in five decades of polemics and public musing that amassing a sort of autobiography required little more than sandwiching a selection of 50 essays between a brief...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (454p) ISBN 978-0-385-15235-8
Buckley is at his brilliant, biting best in this latest collection of his political pieces from National Review and elsewhere. Brookhiser, a Review editor who chose the 100 selections, groups the articles as ""analyses,'' ``commentaries,'' etc., but
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Basic $25.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-465-00836-0
This is the journeyman Bill Buckley. Part memoir, part political history and part reportage, Flying High
sparkles with joie de vivre and syntactical expertise, giving lively accounts of Nikita Khrushchev’s historic—and theatrical—v
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author HarperCollins $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-06-123855-0
Handsome, charismatic 1992 Democratic presidential candidate Ruben Castle is a former antiwar protester who now tacks to the center and is adept at taking both sides of an issue. He’s also an inveterate womanizer with a scandal in his closet:...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author Harcourt $25 (353p) ISBN 978-0-15-101085-1
Master spy Blackford Oakes hies to Russia to thwart yet another assassination plot against Soviet Communist Party chief Mikhail Gorbachev in Buckley's 11th Cold War intrigue starring the aging but still intrepid CIA agent. Back in the U.S.S.R.,...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Sam Vaughan, Editor, Christopher Little, Photographer Random House (NY) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40397-5
Nineteen-ninety was an eventful year for the author: he was harpsichord soloist with the Yale and Raleigh, N.C., symphony orchestras, he retired as editor of the National Review, turned 65 and followed Columbus across the Atlantic. Buckley and five...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, A. M. Rosenthal, With, Robert D. Novak, With Continuum $19.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-8264-0619-4
This volume reprints Buckley's lengthy, genteel, circuitous National Review essay, in which he reached the pained conclusion that his fellow conservative Patrick Buchanan, the reactionary former presidential candidate, is anti-Semitic. In the same...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, John Leonard, Introduction by Adams Media Corporation $12.95 (473p) ISBN 978-1-55850-471-4
A slashing, energetic collection of columns and articles dealing with the political landscape, the Gulf War, the U.N. and other topics. (Mar.)
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, William F. Buckley Jr, Author John Wiley & Sons $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-471-26736-2
From the day the Berlin Wall went up, in August of 1961, separating East and West Berlin, to the day it came crumbling down in November 1989, it stood as a symbol of the denial of freedom and the horrors of communism. In his latest book, ...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Len Cariou, Read by Hachette Audio $24.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57042-689-6
Buckley, ever the sage political pundit, chooses the foil of fiction to present his gently revisionist view of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The author reads his own heartfelt introduction, in which he reminisces that he ""knew the senator"" and calls him...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Jr. Buckley Jr, Author, Andre Bernard, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $31 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100513-0
For the second time in little more than a year (following 1999's The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy), Buckley offers up a fictional account of an icon in America's war against communism. This time, he focuses on James...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Malcolm Hillgartner, Read by , read by Malcolm Hillgartner. Blackstone
, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $tk ISBN (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-6279-1
Buckley worked on this book—commemorating his 30-relationship with Ronald Reagan—up to his final days. He struggles to paint a picture of a more private Reagan, but the book sheds little fresh insight; instead, it is a scattershot...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Alistair Cooke, Introduction by Random House (NY) $22.5 (533p) ISBN 978-0-394-57568-1
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
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Patricia B. Bozell, Editor Random House (NY) $25 (473p) ISBN 978-0-679-40398-2
In this collection of slashing, energetic, acerbically witty columns and articles from the National Review , Esquire , the New York Times and elsewhere, Buckley predictably takes aim at such targets as Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, Ross Perot,...
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Candace Hodges, Author Mariner Books $12 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-600476-3
Buckley's latest novel mixes fact and fiction in a meditation on courage and morality. (Oct.)
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Samuel S. Vaughan, Editor Random House (NY) $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-45214-0
Vaughan, who has edited most of Buckley's books since 1976, has ""selected, assembled and edited with an introduction and sundry comments"" a sprawling, annotated scrapbook of Buckley's nonpolitical jottings on the subject of writing English well....
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, John Steven Gurney, Illustrator Workman Publishing $10.95 (41p) ISBN 978-0-89480-923-1
Buckley has written his first book for young readers, an original and urbane fantasy listed under Goblin Tales, ""stories of the unexplained.'' The subdued colors in Gurney's pictures reflect the dark doings set afoot by Wilfred Malachey, a newcomer
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William F. Buckley, JR., Author, Christopher Little, Photographer Random House (NY) $25 (344p) ISBN 978-0-394-55781-6
Readers who enjoyed Airborne and Atlantic High have a further treat in store as the world's consummate sybarite sails the Pacific, from Honolulu to Kavieng, New Ireland. Buckley and his companions are back aboard Sealestial, the 71-foot ketch with...
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Russell Baker, Author, Ben Bradley, Author, William F. Buckley, JR., Author National Geographic Society $40 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6144-5
Bestselling author and Pulitzer winner Halberstam brings together a powerhouse list of journalists and scholars to consider why America,""for all its flaws, for all the things I dissent from, remains so powerful a beacon to so many of the less...
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