Living It Up With National Review

by Buckley, Priscilla

• ISBN13: 9781890626594
• ISBN10: 1890626597
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Spence Pub

Summary

In an affectionate and hilarious memoir of her forty-three years at National Review, Priscilla Buckley takes her readers behind the scenes at the magazine that came to define American conservatism. With her brother William F. Buckley leading a "brilliant but highly combustible" cast of characters, she recounts the adventures and antics of the intellectuals, writers, and statesmen who built the most formidable movement in contemporary politics.Miss Buckley's insider's account of daily life at National Review includes anecdotes that will become part of the folklore of conservatism: the scandalous origins of the Willmoore Kendall Memorial Couch, Arthur Schlesinger's prize donkey, and NR's own version of the Pentagon Papers, to name a few. Her privileged perch had its advantages and drawbacks: Miss Buckley worked with many of the leading journalists and politicians of the past half-century-NR attracted the young George Will, Joan Didion, and Dinesh D'Souza, among others. She also constantly contended with the more exotic species in the conservative zoo (remember the fluoridation controversy?).Interspersed with these winsome tales are accounts of the Buckley clan's outdoor adventures that rank with the best travel writing: hot air ballooning, white-water rafting, and hunting-lots of hunting.As National Review celebrates its fiftieth birthday, Miss Buckley's memoir of family and work, patriotism and faith, pranks and laughs, will charm American conservatives through the anniversary year and for years to come.

Author Biography

PRISCILLA BUCKLEY spent forty-three years as an editor at National Review. After Smith College, she worked as a reporter in Paris and New York, including a clandestine stint at the United Press sports desk. Among her previous books are The Joys of National Review and String of Pearls, an account of her years as a reporter. An avid painter, golfer, and hunter, Miss Buckley lives in Sharon, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Home Again	3	(5)
Back in New York	8	(5)
I Sign On	13	(11)
The Great Dove War	24	(6)
Managing Editor	30	(8)
Here She Comes	38	(5)
For the Record	43	(4)
150 East 35th Street	47	(6)
Sailing	53	(12)
The Young Fry	65	(7)
Angor Wat	72	(10)
A Study in Contrasts	82	(5)
The Seine	87	(5)
Spring of 1968	92	(5)
Fun & Games	97	(11)
You Must Be Out of Your Mind	108	(13)
The World Turned Upside Down	121	(11)
My Cross-Hairs Were Bent	132	(8)
The Illustrators	140	(9)
Clear Fairways, Miss Buckley	149	(4)
The Poet	153	(5)
Feeling Our Oats	158	(4)
Narrow Boats	162	(7)
Jane Comes Aboard	169	(7)
The Noel Coward of Sports	176	(8)
Bill as Editor	184	(10)
Notes & Asides	194	(8)
Foreign Accents	202	(8)
A Santee-Cooper Christmas	210	(5)
The Friend	215	(6)
Moscow, Here We Come	221	(14)
Coming of Age	235	(8)
Index	243