Buckley The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

Sam Tanenhaus, Malcolm Hillgartner

eAudio - 2025

More than two decades in the making, the definitive biography of William F. Buckley Jr. tells the story of America’s greatest conservative and the rise and fall of the movement he led.In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale, a scathing attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F. Buckley Jr. instantly 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.Ten years before his death in 2008, Buckley chose prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full story of his life and times, granting him extensive interviews, entrée to his intimate circle, and unrestricted access to... his most private papers. Thus began a deep, unparalleled investigation into the vast and often hidden universe of Bill Buckley and the modern conservative revolution.Majestic in its sweep, rich in... more