511 pages, cloth, dj, very good. Fifth impression. From the publisher: This latest Buckley collection is uproarious and serene, exciting and tranquilizing, mordant and gentle. The author has something engrossing to say about the last days of Cardinal Mindszenty, the insatiable curiosity of Hubert Humphrey, the histrionic techniques of David Niven, the artifices of the CIA, the selling of a best-seller. He writes about skiing and flying and sailing (an essay first published in The New Yorker); reviews after 25 years his famous brief against higher education at Yale; analyzes the character and policies of Jimmy Carter and his two predecessors; evokes the political conventions of 1976; and gives us some of the secrets of his home life.

HYMNAL ESSAYS COLLECTION WILLIAM BUCKLEY HUMOR SATIRE