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  • Up From Liberalism
    William F. Buckley / William FBuckley
    2016 Reprint of the 1959 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Buckley’s third book is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that underl...
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  • Buckley vs. Vidal
    Gore Vidal / William F. Buckley / William FBuckley
    Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network’s 'unconventional convention coverage.' The debates were fiery and combative and they infamously blew up at each other during their penultimate debate in Chicago. The ...
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  • The Reagan I Knew
    Jr. William F. Buckley / JrWilliam FBuckley
    No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House.They met in 1961 when Reagan introduced a speech by Buckley. When nobody could turn on the microphone, Reagan climbed out a...
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  • A Very Private Plot
    Jr. William F. Buckley / William FBuckley
    An ambitious senator wants to weaken the power of the CIA, perhaps to the point of its elimination. To accomplish his goal, he tries to enlist Blackford Oakes--now retired--into his cause by forcing him to testify before a senate committee about CIA covert activities in 1985. ...
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  • The Story of Henri Tod
    Jr. William F. Buckley
    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. ...
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    11,91 €

  • Stained Glass
    Jr. William F. Buckley / William FBuckley
    An intricate plot involves the restoration of war-damaged windows in a famous German chapel. When Blackford Oakes takes a sabbatical from his work with the CIA, he finds neither peace nor sanctuary. ...
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    11,87 €

  • Saving the Queen
    Jr. William F. Buckley / William F Buckley
    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. ...
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  • The Blackford Oakes Reader
    William F. Jr. Buckley / William FJrBuckley
    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. ...
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    14,79 €

  • Tucker’s Last Stand
    Jr. William F. Buckley / William FJrBuckley
    The year is 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson and Barry Goldwater are vying for the presidency, and CIA master spy Blackford Oakes has been sent to South Vietnam to halt its infiltration by men and materiel coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Working out of Saigon with Tucker Montana, a shadowy Texan who designs a brilliant system for breaking the North’s supply route, Blackford Oakes...
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  • High Jinx
    Jr. William F. Buckley / William FJrBuckley
    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 afterm...
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    11,88 €

  • Marco Polo, If You Can
    Jr. William F. Buckley / William FJrBuckley
    Master of espionage fiction and National Book Award winner William F. Buckley Jr. brings us another in his best-selling series starring the intrepid CIA agent Blackford Oakes.When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the free world’s defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhower’s National Security Counsel, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask ...
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    11,80 €