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*Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America* - Marginal REVOLUTION

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By Sam Tanenhaus. I held off reading this book at first, as I felt I already knew a lot about Buckley and his life. But it is excellent. Very well written and engaging throughout. I learned a good deal, and it is one of the best books on the history of the American 20th century right wing. As a youth, watching Firing Line, I frequently was frustrated that Buckley was not more analytical, and that he sometimes spoke in such a roundabout manner. In part I wanted to expand Conversations with Tyler to fill that gap. I am also indebted to Buckley for first getting me interested in Bach. So he played a very definite role in my life. A modest cavil, if I may, Dr. Cowen: Buckley’s circuitous cadence, rococo though it was, lent his program a certain mellifluousness, its tempo more accommodating to the contemplative ear. Perhaps beating around the bush enables the bush to linger, as it were. Conversations with Tyler, estimable as it is—and it frequently is—strikes, at moments, a note of s

By Sam Tanenhaus . I held off reading this book at first, as I felt I already knew a lot about Buckley and his life. But it is excellent. Very well written and engaging throughout. I learned a good deal, and it is one of the best books on the history of the American 20th century right wing. As a youth, watching Firing Line , I frequently was frustrated that Buckley was not more analytical, and that he sometimes spoke in such a roundabout manner. In part I wanted to expand Conversations with Tyler to fill that gap. I am also indebted to Buckley for first getting me interested in Bach. So he pla

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