Books, Arts & Manners: Hagiographer with a Hamstring

William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives, by John B. Judis (Simon & Schuster, 528 pp., $22.95)

Musa laboravit, and has brought forth… not much: 471 inaptly titled pages (plus impedimenta) of murk and mumble out of which the reviewer staggers, his basket filled to overflowing with freshly-picked nits.