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Article: Parting shot: WFB shores up his place in the establishment.(Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides From National Review)(Book review)
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- November 1, 2007
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Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides From National Review by William F. Buckley Jr. Basic Books 256 pages, $24
A CONFESSION: BACK IN JUNE OF 1988, when journalist John Judis (The New Republic) published his respectable and respectful biography, William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives, I violated The Nation's traditional church-state division of labor, which guaranteed that the editor (me) would keep his hands off the autonomous back of the book. With the permission of our literary editor, I took the occasion to invite Bob Sherrill, The Nation's take-no-prisoners White House correspondent (who had been banned from the White House as ...