In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique stature as a the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. Among all of his distinctions, Buckley was a master of that most elusive of art for...

Blackford Oakes is Yale's answer to James Bond. In this Cold War thriller, Oakes is sent abroad to penetrate England's royal circle and save the new Queen, after the CIA traces the leak of vital military secrets directly to the Queen'...

It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate. Brilliant, charismatic and with a tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-Communist...

Two college students, Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein, meet in the fall of 1960 before embarking on separate paths. But a singular romance blooms as the two make their way through a tumultuous era, navigating the political fault ...

With the Cold War raging, Blackford Oakes takes a sabbatical from his work as a CIA superspy in order to help restore the war-damaged windows in a fabled German chapel. He finds no peace or sanctuary there, however. Instead, he ends u...

James Jesus Angleton was the master, a legend in the time of spies. He was the founder of American counterintelligence at the end of the second World War and a ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America. His name became synonymou...

2016 Reprint of the 1959 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Buckley's third book is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism...

William F. Buckley Jr.'s first political book in nearly two decades is a revealing memoir of the first champion of the conservative movement. If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in Am...

As the Cold War heats up, and the charismatic Alex Wintergrin rouses his countrymen to reunite Germany, Blackford Oakes is thrown into the arms of a beautiful KGB agent and into a dilemma. Reprint.

William F. Buckley Jr. reflects on the event that marked the fall of Communism in Europe The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. The culmination of pop...

The year is 1995, and an ambitious U.S. senator wants to weaken the power of the CIA, perhaps to the point of its elimination. To accomplish this goal, he tries to enlist Blackford Oakes—now retired—into his cause by forcing...

Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's "unconventiona...

The 'Marlin' was all right--when you have a wife, children, nurses, Secret Service, four aides and one doctor. But he liked, every now and again, to remind the company that this was his FATHER'S boat, not his. HE liked to SAIL. He co...

This is the story of one man's faith, told with unrivaled reflection and candor. William F. Buckley, Jr., was raised a Catholic. As the world plunged into war, and as social mores changed dramatically around him, Buckley's faith -- a ...

America's top financial secret agent Blackford Oakes performed his first heroic effort in SAVING THE QUEEN in which William F. Buckley Jr. coaxes readers back to the earliest days of the Cold War. The year is 1951. Harry Truman is pre...

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. ...

No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement in...

John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year's mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. "As a candidate," Joseph Alsop conceded, "Buckley was cleverer and livelier tha...

No Description