Title:
Cancel your own goddam subscription : notes & asides from the National Review
ISBN:
9780465002429
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, c2007.
Physical Description:
vii, 295 p. ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
"Hanging" Earl Warren, consorting with God : October 1967-April 1972 -- Kennedy cures cancer, WFB combs hair : May 1972-September 1979 -- Up with Tom Selleck, down with Communism : February 1980-September 1991 -- Out of the depths, into retirement : October 1991-December 2005.
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Summary:
Four decades of William F. Buckley Jr.'s famous (and infamous) wit in a volume that will be the political gift book of the season. National Review, like nearly all magazines, has always published letters from readers. In 1967 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and Buckley, the editor, began a column called "Notes & Asides, " in which he personally answered the most notable and outrageous letters. The selections in this book, culled from four decades of these columns, include exchanges with such figures as Ronald Reagan, Eric Sevareid, Richard Nixon, A. M. Rosenthal, Auberon Waugh, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. There are also hilarious exchanges with ordinary readers, as well as letters from Buckley to various organizations and government agencies.--From publisher description.
