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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Masterly ... Buckley is a magnificent work of history as well as of biography, and is as relevant to these parlous times as it is revelatory of Buckley and his times ... Tanenhaus, ...has an encyclopaedic grasp of his subject, his prose is clear-running, unassertive and elegant, and his judgments are sound throughout ... Beautifully written and scrupulously edited.
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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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