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Article: Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Publishers Weekly
- Article date:
- April 27, 2009
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Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
Richard Brookhiser. Basic, $27.50 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-01355-5
In 1969, the precocious 14-year-old Brookhiser wrote a cover story for National Review and began to correspond with founding editor William F. Buckley Jr., who serves as both hero and, sometimes, villain of this wistful memoir. After graduating from Yale, the author became Buckley's designated successor, his rapid ascendancy mirroring the prodigious gains of the conservative movement as championed by the magazine and led by Ronald Reagan. The book, like the ...