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All the virtues of Bill Buckley's earlier books are here--but this one is profoundly different. The is completed (perhaps) the end of several affairs--and the capstone volume of a diarist-journal keeper-journalist, who has proved to be, over books at sea and on land (Cruising Speed, The Unmaking of a Mayor, Airborne, Atlantic High, Overdrive, Racing Through Paradise), both his own Boswell and Johnson.

Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy. It chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his son Christopher, and a photographer.

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In 1980, Buckley gathered together his friends and set out to sail across the Atlantic. This is what he correctly describes as a "celebration" of that thirty-day event.

Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends.

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Celebrate 70 years of the classic!

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In The Reagan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House.

When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the Free Worlds defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhowers National Security Counsel, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask the imposter. Though its fiction, Buckley convinces us that it could really have happened this way.

Buckleys keen political insight and master storytelling ability come togetherin a tale of a candidate of the rise and the dark shadows cast behind him, inthis gripping yet surprisingly empathetic novel.

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For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley's own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but a popularizer, someone who could bring conservativ...

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 than either of his rivals.” And Murray Kempton concluded that "The process which coarsens every other man who enters it has only refined Mr. Buckley.” The Unmaking of a Mayor is a time capsule of the political atmosphere of Ameri...

In this mesmerizing tale of espionage set in 1961 Berlin, Blackford Oakes links up with Henri Tod, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's madness dedicated to preserving freedom in his homeland. When Tod learns of the plans for the Berlin Wall, Oakes knows he must stop Tod from taking action.

You are introduced, in a single volume, to a central character from each of Buckley's ten spy novels. All stand alone in this readable, exciting, and thoughtful collection. As diverse characters find their lives entangled in the web of international espionage, Buckley gives his own stylish, sly, and erudite perspective on intriguing world events.

In 1952, Elizabeth II has just settled on to the throne of England, and the CIA is baffled at the breaches in security that are taking place. Worst of all, the leaks have been traced directly to the queen's chambers.

In his latest installment in the Blackford Oakes series William F. Buckley, Jr., continues to astonish and delight. The year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity ten years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activitie...

The year is 1954, and Joseph Stalin is dead. As the ruthless Laurenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots to succeed him, another drama is taking place in a distant part of the Soviet empire. United States and British commandoes have begun a mission to overthrow the Soviet-controlled government of Albania, but it is doomed to failure from the outset--jinxed by a traitor.In the aftermath of the disaster, CIA super spy Blackford Oakes pursues his adve...