From one of the “premier storytellers today,” *
the long-awaited biography of the charismatic founder of modern conservatism and the movement he led to the pinnacles of political and cultural power.

Ten years before his death in 2008, William F. Buckley, Jr., chose prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full uncensored story of his life and times, granting him extensive interviews and exclusive access to his most private papers. Thus began a deep investigation into the vast and often hidden universe of Buckley and the modern conservative revolution.