New York Times Bestseller
This New York Times Bestseller reveals how one twenty-five-year-old transformed American politics forever. Prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus—hand-picked by Buckley himself—delivers an intimate, unflinching portrait of the man who built modern conservatism, complete with CIA secrets and kingmaker moments that echo through today’s headlines.
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The story of how American conservatism became what it is today begins with one man—and this New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book tells that story with unflinching clarity and narrative power.
When William F. Buckley, Jr. burst onto the national stage in 1951 with his incendiary God and Man at Yale, he was just twenty-five—but he would spend the next half-century reshaping American politics from the ground up. Prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus was hand-picked by Buckley himself to tell this story, granted unprecedented access to private papers and extensive interviews that reveal the man behind the movement.
This is biography as political history—a sweeping account that captures Buckley as founding editor of National Review, Emmy-winning debater, bestselling spy novelist, and kingmaker to Ronald Reagan. But Tanenhaus doesn’t shy away from the shadows: secret CIA missions in Latin America, Watergate connections, and Buckley’s late-career struggle to hold his fractured movement together as it splintered over AIDS, culture wars, and Iraq.
What emerges is a portrait both intimate and panoramic—a man of contradictions who changed the course of American politics, captured at the moment when his influence was at its peak and his legacy most contested. For anyone seeking to understand how we arrived at our current political moment, this gripping chronicle is essential reading. The floorboards of history creak beneath every page.
Tanenhaus has written a fascinating, nuanced portrait of a man who did more to shape the conservative movement than anyone in the last half-century.
A monumental biography... Tanenhaus has produced a work of scholarship and narrative power.
Magisterial... A triumph of the biographer's art.
Tanenhaus has written the definitive biography of William F. Buckley Jr., a book that will stand for decades as the essential account of this towering figure.
A masterpiece of American biography.
| Weight | 2.31 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 200.00 × 140.00 × 10.00 in |
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| Subject | Americas, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Ideologies & Doctrines, Leaders & Notable People, Military, Political, Politics & Government, Politics & Social Sciences, United States |
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