Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Captivating ... Worth the wait. Painstakingly researched and beautifully crafted, Buckley is a capacious and incisive history of the modern conservative movement’s formative years, seen through the eyes of its intellectual leader — a man who, in Tanenhaus’s hands, is enthralling and infuriating by turns, but never boring ... It’s Tanenhaus’s great achievement to have bottled this magic, showing how Buckley played ringmaster in the conservative circus while consistently winning over political adversaries.
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Colorful, comprehensive ... The narrative flows briskly: Tanenhaus streamlines decades of research and interviews ... Tanenhaus is fair to this complicated pundit — more than fair — and the payoff is worth it. Buckley is a milestone contribution to our understanding of the American Century.
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Superb ... Tanenhaus has left us with a fair and balanced story of a life of purpose, one that was actively lived and whose echoes are still felt today.
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