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As new condition burgandy boards, black cloth spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments and Index. Also includes a new condition CD, with selections read by William F. Buckley, Jr. and with Introductions by Walter Cronkite, contained withing a plastic CD case affixed to the rear of the volume. Illustrated with black and white photographs and photographic front and rear endpapers. "William Buckley does indeed talk here of many things, with deft mention of the many cabbages and kings that he has addressed politically over these years. As ever, sheer delight from humor and prose, whatever the political faith." - John Kenneth Galbraith. "What Buckley has is a sort of sparkle and grace, equally in his speaking, writing, and television appearances. It is not just a question of agreeing with Buckley. Rather, it is that in our time free minds are desperately rare and precious, and in him I detect one." - Malcolm Muggeridge. "No other actor on earth can project simultaneous hints that he is in the act of playing commodore of the yacht club, Joseph Goebbels, Robert Mitchum, Maverick, Savonarola, the nice prep school kid next door, and the snows of yesteryear." -- Norman Mailer. "The greatest conservative figure of our age." -- Charles W. Colson. "Bill Buckley is the most consequential journalist and most skillful controversialist of our time." -- George F. Will. "Miles Gone By is a landmark literary event: the autobiography of William F. Buckley Jr., woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than fifty years. Here is Buckley the boy, growing up in a family of ten rambunctious children, with a saintly mother and spirited father; Buckley the daring young political controversialist and enfant terrible, whose debut book, God and Man at Yale, was a shocking New York Times bestseller; Buckley the editor of National Review, widely hailed as the founder of the modern conservative movement; Buckley the politician and mischievous humorist; Buckley the proud father and devoted husband; Buckley the spy and novelist of spies; and Buckley the yachtsman and bon vivant. Along the way, you'll be treated to Buckley's romance with wine, his love of the right word, his intoxication with music, and his joy in skiing and travel. You'll also meet Buckley's friends: Ronald Reagan, "zestfully concerned for the company of others"; Henry Kissinger, "amusing, curious, ever-so-lightly irreverent:; Clare Boothe Luce, "a renowned beauty and man of affairs (a feminist, she stoutly resisted the stylistic effronteries of she-speech):; Tom Wolfe, with "a trace of a Virginia accent, and of course there is the renowned diffidence, the matador taking tea with his mother:; John Kenneth Galbraith, who "consistently writes pleasant tributes to my own books, inevitably advising the reader that my political opinions should be ignored, my fiction or accounts of life as sea appreciated:; David Niven, of whom "my wife suspected that his magic was to induce a whim, so that he could gratify it:; and many others. This unforgettable work paints a wonderful and indelible picture of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary life." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 006957
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography [...
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C.
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Phillips, Kristina Rutledge (jacket design); Schwabel, James (cover photo)
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
