Volume 49, Number 15 · October 10, 2002
Morning in America
By Pico Iyer
Elvis in the Morning
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Harcourt, 328 pp., $25.00; $14.00 (paper)
Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Forum/Prima, 511 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Nuremberg: The Reckoning
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Harcourt, 366 pp., $25.00
Were an alien, in a happy state of ignorance, to drop out of the skies today and pick up a piece of the large, and daily increasing, oeuvre of William F. Buckley Jr., he would, I think, come to some interesting conclusions. Freed of preconceptions, knowing nothing about Buckley's long-popular TV show, Firing Line, which he hosted for many years, or the political convictions that lie behind National Review, which he founded, the alien might come up with a very different image from the one that sometimes confounds the rest of us. He would see, I suspect, an earnest, largely cheerful man, not anxious to tax himself too strenuously, and yet eager, in a rather old-fashioned way, to pass on what he knows of recent history—and his sense of fun—to as many readers as possible.
Review, 4544 words
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