TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buckley,William F.
TI  - Miles gone by: a literary autobiography 
SN  - 0895260891 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3552.U344 Z465 2004
U1  - 818/.5409B 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, D.C., Lanham, Md.
PB  - Regnery Pub., Distributed by National Book Network
KW  - Buckley, William F.
KW  - Novelists, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Journalists
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index; AT HOME:  Life at Great Elm -- Life at Great Elm II -- St. John's, Beaumont -- The "distinguished" Mr. Buckley -- Wine in the blood -- Wine: one man's happy experiences -- William Frank Buckley, 1881-1958 -- Aloise Steiner Buckley, 1895-1985.  YALE:  God and man at Yale -- A toast to the class of 1950 -- Reflections on life after Yale.  WARTIME:  Army life.  SAILING (and skiing, and one fly-by): We must sail across the ocean! -- Christmastime in the Caribbean -- Gulf stream musings -- Meet me at K club -- A quickie, Bahamas to Charleston -- Pleasure on skis -- Alta, my Alta -- Six freshmen and an Ercoupe -- The angel of Craig's Point -- A sail across the Pacific -- Aweigh.  PEOPLE:  Ten friends (David Niven, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Clare Boothe Luce, Tom Wolfe, Vladimir Horowitz, Roger Moore, Alistair Cooke, Princess Grace, John Kenneth Galbraith) -- Five colleagues (Willi Schlamm, Willmoore Kendall, Frank Meyer, James Burnham, Priscilla Buckley) -- And a sixth (William A. Rusher).  REMEMBERING: Whittaker Chambers, 1901-1961 -- Murray Kempton, 1917-1997 -- Henry Regnery, 1912-1996 -- National Review, b. 1955 -- Blackford Oakes, b. 1975 -- William Shawn, 1907-1992 -- Firing line, 1966-1999.  LANGUAGE:  The dictionary, ready at hand -- The conflict over the unusual word -- On writing speedily.  GETTING ABOUT:  1001 days on the Orient Express -- Definitive vacations -- A pilgrimage to Lourdes -- The stupefaction of the New England coastline -- A performance with the symphony, coming up -- The life of the public speaker -- Going down to the Titanic -- Aboard the Sea Cloud.  POLITICS:  My own secret right-wing conspiracy -- Running for mayor of New York City.  SOCIAL LIFE:  Querencia: on coping with social tedium -- The threatened privacy of private clubs -- Why don't we complain?  EPILOGUE: thoughts on a final passage
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