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Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

By: William F. Buckley (Jr.),William F. Meehan

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Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

By: William F. Buckley (Jr.),William F. Meehan

The fifteen interviews in this collection are reprinted as they appeared originally ..."--Introduction.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604732253

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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley

The extraordinary story of the ‘wild white man’ who lived with First Nations people

By: William Buckley,Tim Flannery

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The Life and Adventures of William Buckley

The extraordinary story of the ‘wild white man’ who lived with First Nations people

By: William Buckley,Tim Flannery

‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ Canberra Times ‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong...’ In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the ‘wild white man’ lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley is the ultimate survival story of early Australia and provides an extraordinary insight into pre-contact indigenous society. Tim Flannery has published over thirty books, including the award-winning The Future Eaters, The Weather Makers and Here on Earth and the novel The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish. In 2005 he was named Australian Humanist of the Year and in 2007 Australian of the Year. In 2007 he co-founded and was appointed Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council. In 2011 he became Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, and in 2013 he founded the Australian Climate Council. ‘This account, in Buckley’s words...has all the elements of a Boy’s Own yarn: convicts, savages, privations, wars, cannibalism, survival, treachery and the founding of a colony.’ Herald Sun

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1921776595

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9781921776595

A Torch Kept Lit

Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

By: William F. Buckley, Jr.

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A Torch Kept Lit

Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

By: William F. Buckley, Jr.

The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen. In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley, Jr. achieved unique stature as a writer, a celebrity, and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He kept company with the best and brightest, the sultry and powerful. Ronald Reagan pronounced WFB “perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era,” and his jet-setting life was a who’s who of high society, fame, and fortune. Among all his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and hosting the long-running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was also a master of that most elusive art form: the eulogy. He drew on his unrivaled gifts to mourn, celebrate, or seek mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation. Now, for the first time, WFB’s sweeping judgments of the great figures of his time—presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar gods—are collected in one place. A Torch Kept Lit presents more than fifty of Buckley’s best eulogies, drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelist’s touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them. We are reintroduced, through Buckley’s eyes, to the likes of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Truman Capote and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, a Buckley protégé and frequent contributor to National Review, this volumes sheds light on a tumultuous period in American history—from World War II to Watergate, the “death” of God to the Grateful Dead—as told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists.William F. Buckley, Jr. is back—just when we need him most.

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338

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Forum Books

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1101906227

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9781101906224

Miles Gone By

A Literary Autobiography

By: William F. Buckley

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Miles Gone By

A Literary Autobiography

By: William F. Buckley

Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence. Included are essays that capture Buckley's joyful boyhood and family life; his years as a conservative firebrand at Yale; the life of a young army officer; his love of wine and sailing; memories of his favourite friends; the great influences of music and religion; a life in politics; and exploring the beauty, diversity, and exactitude of the English language.

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608

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Simon and Schuster

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1596983248

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9781596983243

Atlantic High

A Celebration

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

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Atlantic High

A Celebration

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

In 1980, Buckley gathered together his friends and set out to sail across the Atlantic. This is what he correctly describes as a “celebration” of that thirty-day event. Here are the calms and the storms, the melodrama and the rumination, the wine and the song, the navigation and the introspection that in Buckley’s distinctive blend capture the imagination of sailors and non-sailors, amuse the lighthearted and the dour, and engross the reader who wishes he were aboard, as also the reader who thanks heaven that he is not.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493079204

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9781493079209

Airborne

A Sentimental Journey

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

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Airborne

A Sentimental Journey

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operation, was always a risk: one doesn’t set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley’s account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself since he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive, and terrifying. But, we learn quickly, the concern is mostly for the prospect of thirty days and thirty nights away from the cosmopolitan jungle to which he and his friends are accustomed; their lair, so to speak. But it happened: notwithstanding vicissitudes amusing, annoying, and even dangerous, suddenly the schooner, and the entire trip, were airborne, and the experience resulted in a fusion of hopes, fears, ambitions, and pleasures that lifts the book from the category of mere chronicles of the sea, into a chronicle of our time, a passage of the spirit.

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1493079190

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9781493079193

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

By: William F. Buckley (Jr.),William F. Meehan

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Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

By: William F. Buckley (Jr.),William F. Meehan

The fifteen interviews in this collection are reprinted as they appeared originally ..."--Introduction.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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The Unmaking of a Mayor

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

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The Unmaking of a Mayor

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. “As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop conceded, “Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his rivals.” And Murray Kempton concluded that “The process which coarsens every other man who enters it has only refined Mr. Buckley.” The Unmaking of a Mayor is a time capsule of the political atmosphere of America in the spring of 1965, diagnosing the multitude of ills that plagued New York and other major cities: crime, narcotics, transportation, racial bias, mismanagement, taxes, and the problems of housing, police, and education. Buckley’s nimble dissection of these issues constitutes an excellent primer of conservative thought. A good pathologist, Buckley shows that the diseases afflicting New York City in 1965 were by no means of a unique strain, and compared them with issues that beset the country at large. Buckley offers a prescient vision of the Republican Party and America’s two-party system that will be of particular interest to today’s conservatives. The Unmaking of a Mayor ends with a wistful glance at what might have been in 1965—and what might yet be.

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Encounter Books

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1594038481

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9781594038488

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Notes and Asides from National Review

By: William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Notes and Asides from National Review

By: William F. Buckley, Jr.

National Review has always published letters from readers. In 1965 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and William F. Buckley, the editor, began a column called ''Notes & Asides'' in which he personally replied to the most notable and outrageous correspondence. Culled from four decades of the column, Cancel Your Own God dam Subscription includes exchanges with such well-known figures as Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John Kenneth Galbraith, A.M. Rosenthal, Auberon Waugh, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and many others. There are also hilarious exchanges with ordinary readers, as well as letters from Buckley to various organizations and government agencies. Combative, brilliant, and uproariously funny, Cancel Your Own God dam Subscription represents Buckley at his mischievous best.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458759466

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9781458759467

WindFall

The End of the Affair

By: William F. Buckley,

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WindFall

The End of the Affair

By: William F. Buckley,

All the virtues of Bill Buckley’s earlier books are here—but this one is profoundly different. 1990 was a very good year, producing vintage Buckley. He celebrated deeply meaningful anniversaries: the fortieth year of his marriage; the fortieth since his graduation from Yale; the thirty-fifth from National Review, the magazine he founded, and then decided—to considerable shock—to retire from editing. In the year in which he became a senior citizen, he appeared, daringly, as a harpsichordist with two symphony orchestras; wrote a controversial book advocating voluntary national service, a proposal not calculated to endear him to his fellow conservatives; and endured the death of a close friend. Thus is completed (perhaps) the end of several affairs—and the capstone volume of a diarist-journal keeper-journalist, who has proved to be, over books at sea and on land (Cruising Speed, The Unmaking of a Mayor, Airborne, Atlantic High, Overdrive, Racing Through Paradise), both his own Boswell and Johnson.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493087894

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9781493087891

Stained Glass

By: William F. Buckley

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Stained Glass

By: William F. Buckley

The New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning mystery that’s “delightful reading for the spy thriller fan” (UPI.com). When the Wehrmacht took Warsaw, Alex Wintergrin led the charge. But as soon as Hitler’s army occupied the Polish capital, the charismatic young count disappeared, and he was assumed to be dead. But that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Wintergrin had ditched his uniform and turned himself in to Polish security forces, with whom he shared every scrap of Hitler’s plans for the invasion. He then waited out the war in Norway, fighting the Germans with the resistance. Now the fighting may be over, but for Wintergrin, a new battle has just begun. When he starts inciting East Germans to throw off the yoke of Soviet oppression, the USSR threatens to roll its tanks across Europe. In order to keep another war from breaking out, the CIA must send in the charming devil Blackford Oakes to talk sense into Wintergrin—and if necessary, kill him. Stained Glass is the 2nd book in the Blackford Oakes Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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1504018508

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9781504018500

Let Us Talk of Many Things

The Collected Speeches

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

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Let Us Talk of Many Things

The Collected Speeches

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

From the man who helped ignite the modern conservative movement, a delightful collection of eloquent and witty speeches.

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546

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Basic Books (AZ)

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0465003346

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9780465003341

Stained Glass

By: William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Stained Glass

By: William F. Buckley, Jr.

On assignment to restore a 13th-century German chapel, Blackford Oakes learns that its owner is far more than a charming aristocrat. The charismatic Wintergrin is rousing his countrymen to reunite Germany. Now, Oakes must either pull the fatal switch on his friend, or find a way to change the rules. From the bestselling author of Tucker's Last Stand.

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Cumberland House Publishing

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1888952296

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9781888952292

The Reagan I Knew

By: William F. Buckley Jr.,William Frank Buckley

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The Reagan I Knew

By: William F. Buckley Jr.,William Frank Buckley

An intimate portrait of Ronald Reagan from his political mentor, ally, and friend, William F. Buckley Jr.

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0465018025

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9780465018024

The Lexicon

By: William F. Buckley (Jr.)

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The Lexicon

By: William F. Buckley (Jr.)

The perfect gift for sophisticated word lovers, this handy pocket guide comesfrom the author famous for his addiction to and marvelous skill with words ofall kinds. Illustrations.

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180

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156006162

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9780156006163

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

By: William Beckford

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The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

By: William Beckford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385416523

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9783385416529

Book's by William Buckley

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

The Life and Adventures of William Buckley

The Life and Adventures of William Buckley

A Torch Kept Lit

A Torch Kept Lit

Miles Gone By

Miles Gone By

Atlantic High

Atlantic High

Airborne

Airborne

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr

The Unmaking of a Mayor

The Unmaking of a Mayor

Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription

Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription

WindFall

WindFall

Stained Glass

Stained Glass

Let Us Talk of Many Things

Let Us Talk of Many Things

Stained Glass

Stained Glass

The Reagan I Knew

The Reagan I Knew

The Lexicon

The Lexicon

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

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