Getting It Right

I read this several years ago and my attention was brought back to it by the novel I'm currently reading. I'd say this is a good book to read if you are interested in some of the history of America's political past and paths that have brought us to the place we find ourselves today. This of course a......more

STERLING. “My, how they loved to talk about things, the Randians.” I absolutely (guiltily?) loved this ‘novel’ and can only wonder why it took me ten years, after its publication, to discover it. Listening to GETTING IT RIGHT: A NOVEL, by William F. Buckley, Jr., was like listening to a highlight reel......more

Here is William Buckley's fictionalized telling of the beginnings of the modern conservative movement, and there is no better guide than Buckley. Buckley shaped the modern conservative movement by bringing together a collection of different groups - economic libertarians, anti-big government people,......more

Buckley's Getting It Right is an intimate yet critical history of modern conservatism in which Buckley devotes special attention to two influential movements at the margins of the conservative movement, the John Birch Society (JBS) and Objectivism (i.e. Ayn Rand's moral philosophy). Interestingly, B......more