List Books » Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
Authors: Richard Brookhiser
ISBN-13: 9780465013555, ISBN-10: 0465013554
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Richard Brookhiser is the author of nine books, including George Washington on Leadership and What Would the Founders Do? He is a senior editor of National Review. He wrote and hosted the PBS documentary Rediscovering George Washington, and appears frequently on the History Channel and the Colbert Report. Brookhiser lives in New York City.
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A celebrated journalist and historian chronicles his tempestuous relationship with the complex conservative iconand the movement he created
Just as Buckley flitted in and out of Brookhiser s life, he flits in and out of this book. The result is that Brookhiser adds only a little more to an understanding of Buckley than he does to the history of conservatism. … Instead, Right Time, Right Place is mostly a profile of the author himself - a talented man whose genial memoir is likely to leave readers asking for more.