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100	1		_aBuckley, William F. _q(William Frank), _d1925-
245	1	0	_aMiles gone by : _ba literary autobiography / _cWilliam F. Buckley Jr.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bRegnery Pub. ; _aLanham, Md. : _bDistributed by National Book Network, _cc2004.
300			_axii, 594 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm. + _e1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aAT 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.
600	1	0	_aBuckley, William F. _q(William Frank), _d1925-
650		0	_aNovelists, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aJournalists _zUnited States _vBiography.
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