The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder
The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer By Daniel J. Flynn. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 440 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. One rainy afternoon in June, I finally got around to reading the first section of Confessions of...
A Novel Individual: An Interview with William F. Buckley Jr. on his Fiction
Interviewed by William F. Meehan III This interview ran in The University Bookman in 1996 (vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 25-32), when Jeffrey O. Nelson, who was the journal’s editor, expertly turned the lengthy manuscript of my 90-minute interview into a coherent, polished...
Buckley at 100: Revisiting the Speeches of William F. Buckley Jr.
Let Us Talk of Many Things By William F. Buckley Jr. Prima Lifestyles, 2000. Hardcover, 544 pages, $30.00. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. William F. Buckley Jr., friend of Russell Kirk, circulated The University Bookman to National Review subscribers for a number of years....
Buckley at 100: At Sea with William F. Buckley Jr.
Airborne: A Sentimental Journey (1976) Atlantic High: A Celebration (1982) Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage (1987) WindFall: The End of the Affair (1992) Reviewed by Bill Meehan. William F. Buckley Jr., a friend of Russell Kirk, circulated The University...
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