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Right from the Beginning

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Michael Wells
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Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today, and how he came to believe as he does. It is the intimate, first-person account of how the third son in a devout Catholic family of nine children, an expellee from Georgetown University at age twenty-one, without experience in journalism or politics, became, at twenty-three, the youngest editorial writer in America. Three years later, he was confidant to Richard M. Nixon, as the twice-defeated ex-Vice President began the political comeback of the century.
But Right from the Beginning is more than a personal memoir: it is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, poignant, and moving story of the Buchanan family, a book that brings alive again America in the forties and fifties, when "the faith was unquestioned and patriotism unconstrained."

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  • Release date

    May 9, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781483053769
      • File size: 391072 KB
      • Duration: 13:34:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 25, 1988
      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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  • English

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