Right from the Beginning

Buchanan, Patrick J.

ISBN 10: 0316114081 / ISBN 13: 9780316114080

Published by Little Brown & Co, 1988

About this Item

"Best wishes, Pat Buchanan, 6/28/88," on front free endpaper - 1st printing - Book itself like new inside and out except for faint handling/shelving wear. Dust jacket, in Brodart protective sleeve, neither faded nor price clipped ($18.95) with moderate toning.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Right from the Beginning
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316114081
• ISBN 13: 9780316114080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

One of the nation's Republican conservatives speaks out on his life and career, discussing his Catholic upbringing, his family, his influence on both the Nixon and Reagan administrations, and his decision not to run for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination

Reviews

Syndicated columnist Buchanan begins this memoir by explaining why he refused to be enlisted as the conservative Republicans' choice to succeed Reagan as president. As he discusses his Irish Catholic roots, growing up in Washington, D.C., and Chevy Chase, Md., and attending that "citadel of liberalism," Columbia's journalism school, he looks back with nostalgic affection to the 1950s. His eight years working for Nixon are covered in one short chapter, and about Reagan, this White House insider says even less. In a book that is part autobiography, part political agenda, Buchanan advocates prayer in the schools, the death penalty, support for the government of South Africa, laser-based nuclear weaponry and repeal of the amendment that limits a president to two terms. He defends Oliver North, morally condemns AIDS victims and thunders against the liberal "milquetoast" Catholic Church of the 1980s. Conservative Book Club selection.
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$18.95. autobiog Buchanan, columnist and television commentator, writes about his beliefs. His autobiography is a veritable celebration of Catholicism and masculinity, replete with accounts of youthful pranks, scrapes, and arrests. Raised by his father to be a fighter, Buchanan welcomed conflict and glided effortlessly into the politics of confrontation. The final two chapters of his book are highly polemical and will undoubtedly alienate some: He urges the elimination of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, decries superpower arms control negotiations, and asserts that "America's place should be at South Africa's side, sheltering this tormented country from her enemies." Politics aside, persistent references to streets and neighborhoods could prove irksome to readers unfamiliar with the metropolitan D.C. area.Kimberly G. Allen, Georgetown University Law Lib., Washington, D.C.
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