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Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925—)
William F. Buckley Jr. found fame as the voice of conservatism. Founder of the National Review, the conservative journal of opinion of which he was editor-in-ch...
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Author, editor, and political activist, William F. Buckley, Jr. (born 1925) helped to create the modern conservative political movement. His journal, National Review, prepared the way for the presiden...
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When William F. Buckley, Jr., stepped down as editor in chief of the National Review in November 1990, he ended day-to-day involvement with the magazine he founded in 1955 to present a "responsible di...
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Critical Essay by Jane Larkin Crain
[Stained Glass,] an elegant and engaging tale of East-West skulduggery in postwar Germany, genially observes all the conventions of the first-rate spy story and at ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lekachman
As an adventure novelist, William F. Buckley has done it again with Who's on First?. For journals of opinion, aristocratic politics tend to become a drag afte...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
Americanism, Catholicism, the Red Menace, the idiocy of the liberals—that is what "Stained Glass" is all about. It is a tract, in black and whi...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Berman
Stained Glass is more of a novel than a thriller, and it differs from the idols of its marketplace in some interesting ways. The first is in its sense of character. The...
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Critical Essay by Robin W. Winks
[Detective fiction has come so far as] to embrace political philosophy in the person of William F. Buckley Jr., that essayist, columnist, hymnodist of all things conse...
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Critical Essay by Melvyn Bragg
[In Stained Glass] we have what can unblushingly be called a rattling good yarn, a firmly built and racy thriller, a perfect read for a wet English summer.
More than tha...
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Critical Essay by Guernsey Le Pelley
If one word can be used to describe William Buckley's new suspense novel [Stained Glass] it is "absorbing" rather than "exciting"...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
William F. Buckley Jr. is almost alone in using genuine political mischief as a source of wit in the spy novel. He raises the sort of questions that only the most na&...
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Critical Essay by Jack Chatfield
I now understand enough about reviewing spy novels not to reveal the plot of this elegant and witty book set on the eve of the Sputnik launch. But it is safe to say th...
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Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925—)
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Critical Essay by Jane Larkin Crain
