Luggala (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to, 89, 91–94, 97
Lunn, Arnold, 50, 51, 52
Machu Picchu: Melocotón–Buckley trip to, 100–109
Mackey, Lance, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114
Mailer, Norman, 212, 218
Mandela, Nelson, 121, 123
Mann, Charles, 102, 104, 105
Mantle of Greatness cartoon, 3, 172
Mao Zedong, 237, 238, 239, 435, 436
marijuana, 33–34
married couple: on Suzy Wong sailboat, 33–34
Martello tower (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to, 89–90
martinis, 426–27
Matterhorn: Buckley’s trip to, 43–54
Melocotón, Peaches; Buckley’s trips with, 100–109, 118–24, 329–39
Melville, Herman, 8, 15, 260, 268, 310–20, 312n, 438. See also Moby-Dick (book/movie)
minibars, hotel: history of, 115–17
Moby-Dick (book/movie), 43, 96, 260, 266, 272, 274, 310–20, 437–38
money: The New Yorker cartoons about, 249–54; Thompson and, 262
Morse, Samuel, 395–96
movies: breaking into the, 39–43. See also specific movie
Murphy, Daniel J., 29, 30, 167–68
name-dropping, 404–10
Nanny State, 226, 393
Nasaw, David, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305
NATO countries: U.S. missiles in, 28–29
Nazis, 284–86, 304, 309. See also Hitler, Adolf
The New Yorker: Buckley review of Heller novel in, 200; Catch–22 review in, 255–56; elitist cartoons in, 189; Mantle of Greatness cartoon in, 3, 172; money cartoons in, 249–54; political cartoons in, 3, 167–72
Nimitz, Chester W., 399–400
Nixon, Richard M., 175–78, 315, 383–84, 411, 419, 424
Obama, Barack, 188–89, 224, 291, 303, 362
Olson, Charles, 315–16, 317, 319
O’Moyne, Maggie: Buckley’s trip to Ireland with, 89–97
Orwell, George, 10–11, 228, 229, 284
Our Man in Havana (book/movie), 292–96
outrage, populist, 188–90
Pan American World Airways, 148–49
Paris, France: Buckley’s visits to, 329–39; Père-Lachaise cemetery in, 334–39; Wodehouse in, 285
Parker Bowles, Camilla, 279–80, 412
The Passion of Christ (movie), 39, 41
Patton, George, 438–39
pep talks: history of, 428–41
Père-Lachaise cemetery (Paris), 152, 334–39
Peru: Melocotón–Buckley trip to, 100–109
Pitch, Anthony, 181, 182, 184, 185
Political Correctness, 393
politics: New Yorker cartoons about, 3, 167–72
populism, 188–90
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (Heller), 261
Portsmouth Abbey School: Buckley’s speech at, 26–27
Powell, Colin, 182–83, 372, 373
Prescott, William, 101, 102, 104, 105–6
protocol, state, 383–91
Proust, Marcel, 40, 311, 334
Provence, France: Buckley’s trip to, 345–50
“Quiet Car” (train), 20–23
Ratcliffe, Sophie, 281, 284, 285, 288
Reagan, Ronald, 28, 159–60, 163–64, 166, 171–72, 182, 224, 296–99, 384, 411, 417, 428–29, 436
Regan, Don, 424–25
Rehnquist, William, 60, 61
Reitman, Jason, 40–41, 425
rejection letters, college, 359–62
Remembrance Day (November 11, 1918), 140–42
Republicans: and hotel minibar hearings, 117; New Yorker cartoons about, 168, 171–72
Robben Island (South Africa), 122–23
Robertson, Pat, 245–48
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 223, 297, 304–5, 306, 375, 416, 430, 436
Roosevelt, Theodore, 9, 53, 181
Rose, Charlie, 176
royalty: errors about, 81–82; gaffes of/about, 385–87; name-dropping about, 405–6, 407–8, 409. See also specific person
Rumsfeld, Donald, 28, 190
Rushdie, Salman, 230, 258
Russia/Soviet Union: and Afghanistan, 161–62, 237; and Brooks (Herb) pep talk, 438; China and, 238; collapse of, 164, 435; and Lenin’s corpse, 400–403; Sputnik and, 149; trust in, 420–21; Vietnam and, 237
sacking, art of, 422–25
SAT (Scholastic Achievement Test): about Japan, 374–77
satire, 4, 190
Saturday Night Live (TV program), 145, 161
Scalia, Antonin, 59, 60
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 169, 203
September 11, 2001, 48, 223, 428
sex, 233–36, 250
Shakespeare, William, 227, 310, 311, 312, 313, 315–16, 385, 424, 431–33
Shaw, George Bernard, 195, 396
Shelley, Mary, 312–13
Shields, Charles J., 240, 241, 242, 243
Simon and Schuster: Catch–22 and, 259–60
skiing: teaching child about, 357–59
smoking: warnings about, 391–93
Socrates, 370–71
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 219–21
Souter, David, 60, 61
South Africa: Melocotón–Buckley trip to, 121–24
Soviet Union. See Russia/Soviet Union
speeches: Buckley’s disastrous public, 4–5; graduation, 25–27, 363–65
Spielberg, Steven, 274, 410
spin: New Yorker cartoons about, 169
St. Clerans (Ireland): O’Moyne–Buckley trip to, 89, 96–97
Stalin, Joseph, 219, 229, 401, 402, 403, 421, 435
Stein, Gertrude, 331, 332, 334, 336
Steinbeck, John, 266, 268
Stephanopoulos, George, 6
Stevens, John Paul, 59, 60
suburban crank: Buckley as, 54–56
Supreme Court: “calendar” of, 59–61; parking spaces for justices of, 61
Surratt, Mary, 184, 186
Suzy Wong (sailboat): Buckley’s summers on, 31–34
Tango Telegram, 396
Taugwalder, Peter, 45, 50, 51
telegrams, 394–400
Tenet, George, 372, 373
Thank You for Smoking (Buckley): movie of, 39–43
Thanksgiving: at Buckley’s grandparents house, 38
Thomas, Clarence, 60
Thompson, Hunter S., 262–65, 299, 322
Thurber, James, 249–50, 289
Tiananmen Square, 164–65, 238, 239
Toklas, Alice B., 331, 332, 334, 336
tombstone, Buckley’s, 47
top-secret information: and Blair-Buckley relationship, 28–31
Tour Monte Rosa: Buckley’s hike on the, 43–54
Townend, Bill, 287, 288
Trudeau, Garry, 27, 264
Truman, Harry S, 80, 82, 305
Trump, Donald, 178–80, 280, 376
trust: Buckley’s comments about, 420–22
Twain, Mark, 151, 241, 244, 268, 314, 335, 394
2000: apocalypse and, 245–48
Uncle Sam (archetype), 392–93
Updike, John, 270, 289
Uris, Leon, 242, 255
van Gogh, Vincent, 346, 347–48, 349, 350
vice presidents: questionnaire for, 173–75
Vidal, Gore, 8, 221–24, 282
Vietnam: Buckley’s trip to, 125–30; China and, 237; elitism and, 190; gaffes about, 384; Heller’s novels and, 242, 257, 258; pep talk about, 429–30; trust and, 421–22; Vonnegut’s novels and, 242
Vishnu: Bush (George H. W.) as, 159–67
Voice of the Caliphate (Internet video newscast), 73–75
Vonnegut, Kurt, 240–44, 260
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: alarm clocks at, 148–49
Washington, D.C.: during Lincoln’s time, 181–87
Watergate, 383–84, 421, 424
Waugh, Evelyn, 9–10, 213, 256, 281, 282, 287, 288, 289, 294, 397
Webb, James, 257, 258
Weller, Sam, 264, 267, 273, 27
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Wellness, U.S. Department of, 191–92
White House, 181, 182–83
Whymper, Edward, 45, 46, 49–52, 53
Wilde, Oscar, 151, 152, 172, 227, 227n, 228, 284, 329, 334, 335, 336–39
Wodehouse, P. G., 8, 226–27, 281–90
Wolfe, Tom, 263, 264, 277
Wolfowitz, Paul, 372, 374
Woodward, Bob, 166, 362
World War I; Remembrance Day for, 140–42
writers/writing: and “About the Author” paragraphs, 5; book tours of, 5–6, 210, 211, 215; fans of, 9–10; Heller’s views about life of, 261; as humorists, 2–4; and literary immortality, 274; motivation of, 9–12; narcissism of, 6–9, 10; New Yorker cartoons about, 168; Thompson’s views about, 265; as vain and sensitive, 6–7. See also specific person
Yale University, 38, 190
Zagat Survey, 350–54
Zambia: Melocotón–Buckley trip to, 118–21
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