Judis,J. William F. Buckley, Jr. 1988
Judis, John B. William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 528 pages.
When William F. Buckley, Jr., founded The National Review in 1955,
U.S. conservatives were our "stupid party" (as J.S. Mill called England's
Tories). Real intellectuals, it seemed then, derived from the New Deal --
or the left. Conservative thinking, such as it was, had mixed and mostly
dubious antecedents: e.g., American nativism; pre-"Vatican II" Catholicism;
the mystical anticommunism of Whittaker Chambers; or the cultish (as it
seemed then) laissez-faire of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
Buckley and his magazine changed all that. John Judis's massive
biography details how Buckley helped create conservative readers and
institutions (e.g., Young Americans for Freedom) that made politicians
like Goldwater and Reagan possible. As a Yalie and a CIA agent, and as
the dutiful son of a rich oil wildcatter who was also a devout Catholic,
Buckley's own life bridged many of the varieties of conservatism that
later would fuse in the Reagan 80s -- and which now may once again be
coming apart. Judis's account also suggests (to me, at least) that
politics remains for Buckley the intellectual game he first practiced
as a brilliant, devout, eager-to-please child on his father's estate.
-- Steve Badrich
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