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Getting It Right by William F. Buckley Jr. (2003) (L73c8) Regnery Publishing HC
Getting It Right has all the Buckley trademarks—wit, passion, and a heady view of political life. It is a riveting story and an original contribution to the history of the postwar America.
It is set in the upheaval of the 1960s Cuban missile crisis has brought the Communist threat to within miles of the US, and extremist movements roil the American Right.
Two college students, Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein, meet in the fall of 1960. They embark on separate paths: Woodroe goes to work for the indiscriminately anti-communist John Birch Society, while Leonora becomes a novitiate in the libertarian-objectivist cult of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. But a singular romance blooms as they make their way through a tumultuous era, navigating the political fault line that would change American history.
Woodroe, a former mormon missionary to Austria, has experienced firsthand the working of communist repression, and has the bullet would to prove Soviet tenacity. Through his eyes, we see how anti-Communism defined American politics, and how Communist in every bed extremists nearly defeated their own cause.
Leonora, meanwhile, works at the feet of the brilliant, resourceful and imaginative Ayn Rand. Through her, we witness how sexual passion shaped Rand's movement.
Along the way, Buckley takes us into John F. Kennedy's Oval Office as the president wrestles with Castro, the Soviet Union, and his domestic opponents in the GOP. We are at Oxford, Mississippi when student riots overwhelm the city following the court-ordered integration of Ole Miss. We go into backroom meetings with Barry Goldwater as he fights for the presidency, dogged by demands that he disavow the radical conservatives. and, along with the Warren Commission, which is probing the assassination of President Kennedy, we enter a bizarre world of domestic political intrigue.
Buckley sweeps us along as we meet and mingle with some of the towering figures at that age, from Robert Kennedy to Richard Nixon, from General Douglas MacArthur to the blustering General Edwin Walker. There is a glimpse of a bright young economist named Alan Greenspan, and of an energetic young journalist named Bill Buckley.
(from inside flaps)
ISBN: 0895261383
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 311
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Good
Copyright: 2003 by William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc
Edition:
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It is set in the upheaval of the 1960s Cuban missile crisis has brought the Communist threat to within miles of the US, and extremist movements roil the American Right.
Two college students, Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein, meet in the fall of 1960. They embark on separate paths: Woodroe goes to work for the indiscriminately anti-communist John Birch Society, while Leonora becomes a novitiate in the libertarian-objectivist cult of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. But a singular romance blooms as they make their way through a tumultuous era, navigating the political fault line that would change American history.
Woodroe, a former mormon missionary to Austria, has experienced firsthand the working of communist repression, and has the bullet would to prove Soviet tenacity. Through his eyes, we see how anti-Communism defined American politics, and how Communist in every bed extremists nearly defeated their own cause.
Leonora, meanwhile, works at the feet of the brilliant, resourceful and imaginative Ayn Rand. Through her, we witness how sexual passion shaped Rand's movement.
Along the way, Buckley takes us into John F. Kennedy's Oval Office as the president wrestles with Castro, the Soviet Union, and his domestic opponents in the GOP. We are at Oxford, Mississippi when student riots overwhelm the city following the court-ordered integration of Ole Miss. We go into backroom meetings with Barry Goldwater as he fights for the presidency, dogged by demands that he disavow the radical conservatives. and, along with the Warren Commission, which is probing the assassination of President Kennedy, we enter a bizarre world of domestic political intrigue.
Buckley sweeps us along as we meet and mingle with some of the towering figures at that age, from Robert Kennedy to Richard Nixon, from General Douglas MacArthur to the blustering General Edwin Walker. There is a glimpse of a bright young economist named Alan Greenspan, and of an energetic young journalist named Bill Buckley.
(from inside flaps)
ISBN: 0895261383
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 311
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Good
Copyright: 2003 by William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc
Edition:
DEFECTS:
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