Award-winning author and former New York Times Book Review <\/em>editor Sam Tanenhaus<\/strong> in\u00a0 conversation with internationally renowned concert pianist – and longtime friend of William F.\u00a0 Buckley Jr – Bruce Levingston<\/strong> for Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America<\/em>, a\u00a0 gripping and powerfully relevant story about the birth of the modern conservative movement and\u00a0 those who shaped it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBuckley is all that a biography could and should be: penetrating,\u00a0\u00a0deeply researched, respectful but critical.\u201d\u2014Beverly Gage, Pulitzer\u00a0\u00a0Prize\u2013winning author of G-Man\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale<\/em>, a scathing\u00a0attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr.,\u00a0seized the public stage\u2014and commanded it for the next half century\u00a0as he led a new generation of conservative activists and ideologues\u00a0to the peak of political power and cultural influence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten years before his death in 2008, Buckley chose prize-winning\u00a0biographer Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full, uncensored story of his\u00a0life and times, granting him extensive interviews and exclusive\u00a0access to his most private papers. Thus began a deep investigation\u00a0into the vast and often hidden universe of Bill Buckley and the\u00a0modern conservative revolution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buckley vividly captures its subject in all his facets and phases: founding editor of National Review<\/em>, the twentieth century\u2019s most influential political journal; syndicated columnist, Emmy-winning TV debater, and bestselling spy novelist; ally of Joseph McCarthy and Barry Goldwater; mentor to Ronald Reagan; game-changing candidate for mayor of New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tanenhaus also has uncovered the darker trail of Bill Buckley\u2019s secret exploits, including CIA missions in Latin America, dark collusions with Watergate felon Howard Hunt, and Buckley\u2019s struggle in his last years to hold together a movement coming apart over the AIDS epidemic, culture wars, and the invasion of Iraq\u2014even as his own media empire was unraveling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At a crucial moment in American history, Buckley <\/em>offers a gripping and powerfully relevant story about the birth of modern politics and those who shaped it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sam Tanenhaus, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review<\/em>, is the author of the national bestsellers Whittaker Chambers: A Biography <\/em>(winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize) and The Death of Conservatism<\/em>. His feature articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair<\/em>, and many other publications in the United States and abroad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bruce Levingston was a longtime friend of William F. Buckley, Jr., and frequently sailed with him and performed music with him. In 1999, he hosted Buckley for a visit to Mississippi. Levingston is an internationally renowned concert pianist and recording artist and has appeared in many of the world\u2019s most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. Levingston has released ten solo albums and is one of the most frequently streamed classical artists in the world with over 30 million streams on Apple Music and Spotify. Levingston\u2019s album Heavy Sleep was named one of the \u201cBest Classical Recordings of the Year\u201d by The New York Times. Levingston is the author of Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull, a best-selling biography and survey of the work of the distinguished Mississippi artist. In 2006, Levingston was awarded the Mississippi Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in the Arts and, in 2017, he was elected to the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. Levingston is the Chancellor\u2019s Honors College Artist in Residence and holder of the Lester Glenn Fant Chair at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College of the University of Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout the book <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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