Gordon Wood and the Verisimilitudes of Consensus History
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 By Gordon S. Wood. UNC Press, 1969/1998. Paperback, 680 pages, $45.95. The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820 Edited by Gordon S. Wood. Northeastern University Press, 1971/1990. Hardcover, 352 pages, $44.42. The...
Buckley and Edwards: The Titan of Conservatism and His Titan of a Biographer
William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2010/2019. Paperback, 224 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Last December, the venerable scholar of the conservative movement and the human force behind the Victims of Communism...
Buckley at 100: Countering the Communist Threat
McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr., his one-time Yale debate partner, National...
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