A Guide to the Biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

I first heard about this book in the late Nineties. Yes, that would have been in the previous century. After one of Patsy Buckley’s fabulous dinners at the New York maisonette — great conversation, great food, bargain wine — WFB signaled a few of us to stay after the other guests had departed: Joseph Donner, a philanthropist and the senior member of the National Review, Inc. board; Evan Galbraith, Reagan’s ambassador to France who had been close to WFB since their days together at Yale; William Rusher, the publisher of National Review magazine; and me, the head of a television production company and a member of the NR board for more than 30 years, my tenure being almost as long as the others’.