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A witty and poignant memoir of a young man and a political movement coming of age -- and of the man who inspired them both
"Stirring and enormously readable" -- MICHAEL MEDVED
Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Conservative Movement
by Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser was only fourteen when he wrote his
first cover story for National Review -- and only twenty-
three when he became the magazine's youngest senior editor.
A star-struck admirer and protégé of the magazine's
founder, William F. Buckley Jr., Brookhiser was soon tapped
by Buckley himself to succeed him as editor-in-chief. But
somehow the relationship soured -- and one day Brookhiser
found a note on his desk dryly informing him "you will no
longer be my successor." Yet despite this crushing
disappointment, Brookhiser stayed on at National Review and
remained friends with Buckley until the great man's death.
Now, in Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Conservative Movement, Brookhiser tells the story
of that friendship -- and of the remarkable conservative
resurgence that Buckley nurtured and led.
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"When I met Bill Buckley, there were still Soviet
troops in Berlin," writes Brookhiser. "Ten years later,
they were in Afghanistan. Ten years after that, the Berlin
Wall collapsed. Twelve years after that, the World Trade
Towers collapsed. The conservative movement helped elect
presidents, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to George
W. Bush. Like a typhoon, the turn of the millennium threw
amazing sea creatures on the beach: prophets (Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn), freaks (Monica Lewinsky), monsters (Pol
Pot). Working for Bill Buckley at National Review, I
covered these and many other figures and events. I shook
Castro’s hand; Reagan laughed at one of my jokes, and
Margaret Thatcher repeated it. One of my friends got
anthrax after 9/11. You had to be interested in history
from 1969 to 2008; to borrow a line from Christopher
Hitchens, it was interested in you."
"A Galloping Good Read"
"A stirring and enormously readable account that
provides a valuable reminder of the ability of a single
individual to bend the course of history and alter,
forever, a nation's thinking." -- Michael Medved, talk radio
host and author of The 10 Big Lies About America
"Richard Brookhiser has written a wonderful memoir
that is a personal history of National Review and of
contemporary conservatism -- unabashedly honest, deeply
wise, and analytically acute. Brookhiser is the prose
equivalent of a fine jeweler. With his lapidary style and
dazzling metaphors and erudition, he's always a marvel to
read." --Rich Lowry, editor of National Review
"Right Time, Right Place is a galloping good read -- an
honest, fast-paced, revealing memoir by one of the
conservative movement's best writers. William F. Buckley
emerges as a real human being, warts and all, and not just
the Conservative Saint. Of course, Buckley is that, too,
but he's more rounded in this book than in any other I have
read." -- Lou Cannon, co-author of Reagan's Disciple: George
W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy
"I thought I knew Bill Buckley. Now I know better -- a
lot better. But Right Time, Right Place is more than just a
poignant, startlingly frank memoir of a remarkable man. It
is also a portrait of a pivotal moment in American
political and intellectual life, seen through the eyes of a
gifted writer who saw it all happen and knew what he was
seeing. Anyone who wants to understand how and why the
conservative movement changed America will have to reckon
with this book." -- Terry Teachout, drama critic of The
Wall Street Journal
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