A must-read: Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus.

Garrett Graff : “This is almost surely the best book I read all year — which is not something I would have predicted about a 1,000-page biography of William F. Buckley, someone I knew very little about ahead of the book…”

“Tanenhaus worked on this book for almost a quarter century and I would guess it’s a shoe-in for next year’s Biography Pulitzer… but it encompasses everything great about a masterful biography — and even made me laugh out loud at parts. The book, as majestic as it is as a piece of writing and research, is not altogether complimentary about Buckley — you can’t walk away from the book without reeling from his racism and seeing clearly the path from Buckley to Donald Trump.” Sale

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