{"product_id":"buckley","title":"Buckley","description":"\u003cb\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eReagan: His Life and Legend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Not only a psychologically astute and subtle biography of a seminal figure, \u003ci\u003eBuckley\u003c\/i\u003e is now the definitive intellectual history of the conservative movement.”—John Ganz, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1951, with the publication of \u003ci\u003eGod and Man at Yale\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen 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 investigation into the vast and often hidden universe of Bill Buckley and the modern conservative revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuckley \u003c\/i\u003evividly captures its subject in all his facets and phases: founding editor of \u003ci\u003eNational Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe twentieth century’s most influential political journal;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esyndicated columnist, Emmy-winning TV debater, and bestselling spy novelist; ally of Joseph McCarthy and Barry Goldwater; mentor to Ronald Reagan; game-changing candidate for mayor of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTanenhaus\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ealso has uncovered the darker trail of Bill Buckley’s secret exploits, including CIA missions in Latin America, dark collusions with Watergate felon Howard Hunt, and Buckley’s struggle in his last years to hold together a movement coming apart over the AIDS epidemic, culture wars, and the invasion of Iraq—even as his own media empire was unraveling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a crucial moment in American history, \u003ci\u003eBuckley \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a gripping and powerfully relevant story about the birth of modern politics and those who shaped it.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395674841470,"sku":"NW9780375502347","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780375502347.jpg?v=1778625765","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/buckley","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}