Finally, no words can adequately thank my wife, Sara, for her love and support and grounding. I strive with intermittent success to be worthy of her and our sons, to whom this book is dedicated.
James Rosen
Washington, D.C.
June 13, 2016
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* Kurt Vonnegut, Politics Today (January–February 1979); reprinted in Vonnegut, Palm Sunday (Delacorte Press, 1981).
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. (1925–2008), was the architect of modern American conservatism. As the founder of National Review magazine, the host of TV’s Firing Line (1966–99), a widely syndicated columnist for more than fifty years, and the author of several dozen books—ranging from critiques of higher education to sailing travelogues to spy novels, most of them bestsellers—WFB cut a singular figure in American public life and media. He also served in the Central Intelligence Agency, founded Young Americans for Freedom, captured 13.4 percent of the vote in the 1965 New York City mayoral race, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ronald Reagan called Buckley “perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era.”
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JAMES ROSEN is the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, where he has been a reporter since 1999. He has covered the White House and State Department beats and reported from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, nearly all fifty states, and forty foreign countries across five continents. Rosen’s exclusive reporting made him a target of the Obama administration and a rallying point for civil liberties groups and champions of the First Amendment. Rosen’s articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harper’s, The Atlantic, National Review, and Playboy, among other periodicals. He is the author of The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate and Cheney One on One. He lives in Washington with his wife and their two sons.
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