A Very Good Year

Assembled below for the edification of all are twenty-nine recent books which our reviewers praised especially highly during 1966. The range is wide, embracing politics, history, economics, military affairs and literature, with some diverting novels, a science-fiction tale and a fine, fat dictionary to boot. Extracts from the reviewers’ comments follow, in the same order as in the photograph.

While not in every case specifically “conservative,” the books nevertheless share a special appeal to conservative readers: they (and, to be sure, dozens of other recent books) attempt to show where humanity is today and to suggest that it is a great modern work, a classic of our time. In it Waugh has succeeded in disciplining his energies by means of a complex overall design, and so can establish meanings more ambitious than he had attempted before.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

Assembled below for the edification of all are twenty-nine recent books which our reviewers praised especially highly during 1966. The range is wide, embracing politics, history, economics, military affairs and literature, with some diverting novels, a science-fiction tale and a fine, fat dictionary to boot. Extracts from the reviewers’ comments follow, in the same order as in the photograph.

While not in every case specifically “conservative,” the books nevertheless share a special appeal to conservative readers: they (and, to be sure, dozens of other recent books) attempt to show where humanity is today and to suggest that it is a great modern work, a classic of our time. In it Waugh has succeeded in disciplining his energies by means of a complex overall design, and so can establish meanings more ambitious than he had attempted before.