Right from the Beginning (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Pat Buchanan
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1938 to the late 1980's
- Setting: Washington, D.C., and other locales in the United States
- Principal Characters: Patrick Buchanan, Bay Buchanan, William Buchanan, Barry Goldwater, Joseph Mccarthy, Richard Nixon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, 1960’s, 1970’s, Politics, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1980’s, Political science, Conservatism, Republican Party
- Locales: United States, Washington, D.C.
Patrick Buchanan's Right from the Beginning is the conservative celebrity's first book. It is an intimate, first-person account of how the third son in a devout Catholic family of nine children rose to become the youngest editorial writer in the United States and, soon thereafter, a trusted confidant to Richard M. Nixon in his dramatic political comeback. A projected sequel will detail more specifically Buchanan's present family life and his prominent service to and allegiances within the Nixon and Reagan White Houses.
In equal parts polemical and biographical, Right...
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