How the Right Was Won

AUSTIN W. BRAMWELL

William F. Buckley Jr. is a controversialist with the soul of a peacemaker. In reading his last five novels—The Redhunter, Spytime, Elvis in the Morning, Nuremberg: The Reckoning, and, now, Getting It Right—one almost forgets that their author made a career of rupturing so many Establishment spleens. Not only do they collectively paint one of the most loving recent portraits of America, they even show the author reconciling himself to his erstwhile enemies—the opponents of Senator McCarthy in Redhunter, rock-’n’-roll music in Elvis (against which this reviewer wishes he had held out longer), and, in Getting It Right, John Birch Society founder Robert Welch and Atlas Shrugged author Ayn Rand.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

AUSTIN W. BRAMWELL

William F. Buckley Jr. is a controversialist with the soul of a peacemaker. In reading his last five novels—The Redhunter, Spytime, Elvis in the Morning, Nuremberg: The Reckoning, and, now, Getting It Right—one almost forgets that their author made a career of rupturing so many Establishment spleens. Not only do they collectively paint one of the most loving recent portraits of America, they even show the author reconciling himself to his erstwhile enemies—the opponents of Senator McCarthy in Redhunter, rock-’n’-roll music in Elvis (against which this reviewer wishes he had held out longer), and, in Getting It Right, John Birch Society founder Robert Welch and Atlas Shrugged author Ayn Rand.