Gleanings from an Unplanned Life
Title | Gleanings from an Unplanned Life PDF eBook |
Author | James L. Buckley |
Publisher | Isi Books |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781933859118 |
"I was born in an elevator in New York City's Women's Hospital in the early hours of March 9, 1923. That was the first of a series of unplanned, unanticipatable events that have shaped my life. It was also a rather unceremonious way to enter the world. I wouldn't have entered it at all, however, had it not been for an allergy gene that caused my paternal grandfather, who was beset by asthma, to abandon Canada for the starker landscape of south Texas. At least it seems unlikely that my father would have courted my New Orleans mother if he had been reared in Canada." "I grew up in a small rural community located in the northwest corner of Connecticut beyond commuting range from anywhere. I loved the life there; and while bobbing around the Pacific as a naval officer in World War II, I decided on a career as a country lawyer. After four years learning the trade at a New Haven law firm in preparation for a move to the country, I was lured away by my father and found myself working for a family business headquartered in New York City. Then through a series of wildly improbable circumstances, beginning with the decision of my brother Bill to run for the office of mayor of New York City on the strict understanding that he could not win, I have found myself among the very few who have served in high positions in all three branches of the federal government; in my case, as a senator, an under secretary of state, and, most recently, as an appellate judge."
Gleanings from Life
Title | Gleanings from Life PDF eBook |
Author | Magdalena D. H. Baker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1931 |
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Gleanings from Life
Title | Gleanings from Life PDF eBook |
Author | L. J. Schlattman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1926 |
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William F. Buckley Sr.
Title | William F. Buckley Sr. PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Adams |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2023-03-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0806192305 |
In 1909, young William F. Buckley Sr. (1881–1958), who grew up in the dusty South Texas town of San Diego, graduated from the University of Texas law school and headed for Mexico City. Fluent in Spanish, familiar with Mexican traditions, and soon fit to practice law south of the border, Buckley was headed up the aisle to vast wealth and cultural power. On the way, he took a front-row seat at the Mexican Revolution and played a key role in steering the nascent oil industry through tumultuous and dangerous times. This book for the first time tells the story of the man behind the family that would become nothing short of a conservative institution, reaching its apogee in the career of William F. Buckley Jr., arguably the most prominent conservative commentator of the twentieth century. Buckley witnessed the overthrow and exit of President Porfirio Díaz, the rise of Madero, and the coup of General Victoriano Huerta, all while building the Pantepec Oil Company, the most profitable small petroleum producer in Mexico. He faced down Pancho Villa, survived encounters with hired assassins, evaded snipers in the streets of Veracruz, gambled and won in many a business venture—and ultimately was expelled from the country. As the narrative follows Buckley from his small-town Texas beginnings to the founding of a family dynasty, the streak of independence and distrust of government that would become the Buckley hallmark can be seen in the making. An eventful chapter in the life and career of a singular character, this dramatic account of a man and his moment is a document of political and historical significance—but it is also a remarkable story, told with irresistible brio.
Gleanings from My Life
Title | Gleanings from My Life PDF eBook |
Author | William Wakinshaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 1931 |
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Freedom at Risk
Title | Freedom at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | James L Buckley |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2010-12-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1594035350 |
James L. Buckley may be the only American alive who has held high office in each branch of the federal government as senator of New York, undersecretary of state under Ronald Reagan, and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. His unique understanding of how Washington works equips him to address the intrusive and exponential growth of the federal government in the past forty years. In Freedom at Risk, Buckley’s collected essays, musings, and speeches tell the real story of why government is incapable of managing an economy, and why the transformation of the federal government into a centrally administered welfare state is undermining the critical safeguards that the Founders wrote into the Constitution. Here, in a sober book of perceptive analysis spanning a lifetime in Washington, lies an outline of the steps that must be taken to save constitutional government, if that is still possible.
Life's Gleanings
Title | Life's Gleanings PDF eBook |
Author | Ellie May Quarles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1920 |
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