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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Judis, an editor of the newsmagazine In These Times, strives to draw a balanced, objective portrait of arch-conservative Buckley, whose politics he clearly deplores. The result is an equivocating, lobotomized biography, full of facts but lacking fire. Judis traces Buckley's "defensive clannishness," his arrogance and competitiveness to an overwhelming need for approval from his father, a Texas oil millionaire. He is careful to praise Buckley for his personal generosity, his purported tolerance of the 1960s counterculture and the way he distanced the conservatism of his National Review from segregationists and groups like the John Birch Society. Buckley's trajectory has been downward, as Judis defines it, from his role as self-appointed spokesman of the New Right, to his current status as an uninfluential media personality who still champions 1950s Cold War verities. First serial to Manhattan Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
$22.95. biog In this first book-length biography of Buckley, Judis, a journalist, capably traces his subject's intellectual and political peregrinations from "enfant terrible who fearlessly flayed the establishment" to celebrated member of the American ruling class. Judis credits patriarch William Sr. with shaping his son's basic beliefs, including the core conviction that Catholicism and anti-Communism are inextricably linked. He handles the chapters on the gestation and surprising success of the National Review especially well, and also Buckley's relations with Gary Wills, William Rusher, Gore Vidal, and President Reagan. He concludes that more than any other person, Buckley has defined modern conservative principles, but now at 63 has become "mellow and uninteresting." Kenneth F. Kister, Pinellas Park P.L., Fla.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Judis, an editor of the newsmagazine In These Times, strives to draw a balanced, objective portrait of arch-conservative Buckley, whose politics he clearly deplores. The result is an equivocating, lobotomized biography, full of facts but lacking fire. Judis traces Buckley's "defensive clannishness," his arrogance and competitiveness to an overwhelming need for approval from his father, a Texas oil millionaire. He is careful to praise Buckley for his personal generosity, his purported tolerance of the 1960s counterculture and the way he distanced the conservatism of his National Review from segregationists and groups like the John Birch Society. Buckley's trajectory has been downward, as Judis defines it, from his role as self-appointed spokesman of the New Right, to his current status as an uninfluential media personality who still champions 1950s Cold War verities. First serial to Manhattan Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
$22.95. biog In this first book-length biography of Buckley, Judis, a journalist, capably traces his subject's intellectual and political peregrinations from "enfant terrible who fearlessly flayed the establishment" to celebrated member of the American ruling class. Judis credits patriarch William Sr. with shaping his son's basic beliefs, including the core conviction that Catholicism and anti-Communism are inextricably linked. He handles the chapters on the gestation and surprising success of the National Review especially well, and also Buckley's relations with Gary Wills, William Rusher, Gore Vidal, and President Reagan. He concludes that more than any other person, Buckley has defined modern conservative principles, but now at 63 has become "mellow and uninteresting." Kenneth F. Kister, Pinellas Park P.L., Fla.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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