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Airborne: A Sentimental Journey

Sports & Outdoors

Buckley, William F.

Water Sports

Simon Schuster Trade

Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought

Essays discuss the history of conservatism, capitalism the New Right, political science, the welfare state, civil rights, foreign policy, Vietnam, communism, and leadership

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Harpercollins

1990 was a significant year for Buckley. He not only embarked on a sailing trip that forms the main subject of this book, but on several other major passages: the 40th anniversary of his marriage and his graduation from Yale, and the 35th anniversary of the founding of the National Review. 111 photographs, 27 in color. Line drawings.

Windfall: The End of the Affair

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Perennial

With vital military secrets falling into Soviet hands, Blackford Oakes, ex-combat pilot and Yale graduate, hopes to penetrate the Royal Circle, win the Queen's confidence, and plug the leak in intelligence. Reprint.

Saving the Queen

Literature & Fiction

With the U.S. and the Soviets racing to put the first satellite in space, Blackford Oakes is commissioned to kidnap a pair of extraordinary Russian scientists who would help put the U.S. in the lead. Reprint.

Who's on First

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

An ambitious, roguish young presidential candidate . . . a lifetime of inconvenient secrets . . . a decision to save a candidacy—all at a fatal cost: These are the provocative threads that master storyteller William F. Buckley Jr. weaves into this gripping yet surprisingly empathetic political novel.
The Rake brings together Buckley's keen political insight and his tale-spinning craft to tell the story of a candidate on the rise and the dark shadows cast behind him. As Reuben Castle, the prototypical child of the sixties, coasts through his early life on a cloud of easy charisma, he leaves behind more skeletons than Arlington: a highly questionable Vietnam record, an abandoned wife, and worse. Yet two decades later, just as his dreams are within reach, he learns that his personal history is about to become his political epitaph—unless he takes the direst of measures to protect himself. 
With a blend of satire and suspense, Buckley offers an archly pointed portrait of a familiar icon. A novel by the defining conservative of our times, about a figure bearing an unmistakable resemblance to the defining liberal of our times, The Rake is a welcome new masterpiece, and Buckley's most winning, and provocative, novel in years.

The Rake: A Novel

Humor & Satire

Harper

A prototypical child of the sixties, Senator Reuben Castle coasted through his early life on a cloud of easy charisma, leaving behind more skeletons than Arlington: a highly questionable Vietnam record, an abandoned wife, and worse. Now, two decades later, his greatest dream is within reach. But his personal history is about to become his political epitaph—unless he takes the direst of measures to protect himself. From William F. Buckley Jr.—nationally bestselling author and one of the keenest political minds of our time—comes an ingenious blending of satire and suspense, the riveting tale of an all-too-recognizable presidential candidate and the dark shadows cast behind him.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Harper Paperbacks

Threading its way through some of the most significant events in modern american history and grappling with issues raised by the FDR legacy, William F. Buckley’s first novel without Blackford Oakes is “a moral thriller, a story of human frailty, testing, and redemption of the spirit” (Baltimore Sun) that “aspires to genuine greatness” (Washington Post).

Brothers No More

Mariner Books

More than twenty years ago William F. Buckley Jr. launched the dashing character of Blackford Oakes like a missile over the literary landscape. This newly minted CIA agent-brainy, bold, and complex-began his career by saving the queen of England and quickly took his place in the pantheon of master spies drawn up by Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré. Against the backdrop of sinister Cold War intrigue, in this, his eleventh outing, Oakes crosses paths-and swords-with Kim Philby, perhaps the highest-ranking in the parade of defectors to the Soviet Union. Oakes is now himself a master spy, working outside of the agency and around agency rules. His romance with an able and worldly Soviet doctor provides consolation for the death of his beloved Sally. But after his return to Washington, he receives dismaying news. It is inevitable that the great Soviet spy and the renowned American agent will meet again-this time with deadly consequences.

Last Call for Blackford Oakes

United States

Buckley recounts the perils, petty and major aggravations, and social frictions he experienced during a voyage in his schooner Cyrano, with his son and friends, from Miami, Florida, to Marbella, Spain

Little,Brown & Co

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Airborne: A Sentimental Journey

Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought

Windfall: The End of the Affair

Saving the Queen

Who's on First

The Rake: A Novel

The Rake: A Novel

Brothers No More

Last Call for Blackford Oakes

Airborne: A Sentimental Journey