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1) The Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall, explaining why it was built, how it was constructed, and the impact it had on the lives of people on both sides, and describes the events leading up to the wall's destruction.

2) Nuremberg: the reckoning

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Buckley, William F

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"Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, 1945: The scene of a trial without precedent in history, a trial that continues to haunt the modern world. Leading the reader into the Palace is Sebastian, a young German-American whose fate is to be involved intimately with the lives and deaths of others - the father who disappeared mysteriously, the ancestors whose stories become vitally relevant, and some of the towering figures of twentieth-century legal history,...

3) A very private plot: a Blackford Oakes novel

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Buckley, William F

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Blackford Oakes novels volume 10

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Book, Large Print

4) Atlantic high: a celebration

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Buckley, William F

Pub. Date

1982

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Ill. on lining papers.

5) The lexicon

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Buckley, William F

Pub. Date

1998

6) Getting it right

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Buckley, William F

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[2003]

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Set in the 1960s, follows two college students, one active in the John Birch Society, the other an Ayn Rand acolyte.

7) Did you ever see a dream walking?: American conservative thought in the twentieth century

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Buckley, William F

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The American heritage

Pub. Date

[1970]

8) Spytime: the undoing of James Jesus Angleton

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Buckley, William F

Pub. Date

[2000]

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"James Jesus Angleton was the master - a legend in the time of spies, the founder of U.S. counterintelligence, and a ruthless hunter of America's enemies. Spytime is a fictional account of Angleton's life, from his involvement behind the lines in World War II to the waning days of the Cold War. A stunning re-creation of perilous times, it is also a masterful revelation of an obsessed man whose name became synonymous with skullduggery and subterfuge."...

9) Miles gone by: a literary autobiography

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Buckley, William F

Pub. Date

[2004]

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Accompanying CD contains recordings of author reading the individual pieces of the text with Walter Cronkite reading the introductions

10) Elvis in the morning

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Buckley, William F

Pub. Date

[2001]

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"Orson is a schoolboy in Germany whose American mother works at a U.S. Army base in the 1950s. There he becomes a fan of a G.I. stationed nearby, a soldier whose music captivates Orson, as it has so much of America: Elvis Presley. Orson is caught in the PX stealing records of Elvis's music, and the military court mock-seriously sentences him to a month without Elvis music. The publicity catches the young star's attention, and Elvis goes to visit his...

11) Flying high: remembering Barry Goldwater

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Buckley, William F

Pub. Date

[2008]

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If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward. But the policy intellectuals knew that to actually change the way the country was run, they needed a presidential candidate, and the man they turned to was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater....