Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Regnery HC

Description: Here is a large hardbound volume titled Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Published by Regnery Publishing, 594 pages. A bit of wear on the dustjacket, but pages clean and binding strong. Appears unread. Please see my other auctions for more books in philosophy, theology, classics, and biblical studies. Thank you. From the publisher: Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence. Included are essays that capture Buckley's joyful boyhood and family life; his years as a conservative firebrand at Yale; the life of a young army officer; his love of wine and sailing; memories of his favourite friends; the great influences of music and religion; a life in politics; and exploring the beauty, diversity, and exactitude of the English language. Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyThe conservative writer and Firing Line host has published so many millions of words in five decades of polemics and public musing that amassing a sort of autobiography required little more than sandwiching a selection of 50 essays between a brief preface and epilogue. The extracts range in subject from his silver-spoon boyhood and boarding-school days to the lives and deaths of the many prominent people he has known. Fame came early, with Buckley's 1951 God and Man at Yale, excerpted here, which lambasted liberal bias at elite American colleges. (Far superior, though, is the sparkling memoir of his war-veteran class of 1950 at Yale.) An instant darling of conservatives who needed a spirited new voice, Buckley founded the National Review, whose writers became the core of his widening circle of influential acquaintances. While sailing, touring and media punditry take up much of the collection, the most memorable pieces are about such offbeat friends as the tragic Whittaker Chambers. Nevertheless, some portraits are merely laudatory epitaphs. Approaching 80, Buckley notes that his sporting days are about over, but "[s]o to speak, I can still ski on a keyboard." Like skiing, his keyboard has its ups and downs. B&w photos.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From the PublisherThis book includes a free audio CD featuring 48 minutes of excerpts read by William F. Buckley Jr. and each introduced by the legendary voice of Walter Cronkite.

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