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Wednesday, April 23, 2003
No. It's not the Onion. It only reads like the Onion.
I have to give Roger Ailes a ton of credit for turning up this nugget:
William F. Buckley Jr.’s latest novel, Getting It Right, is set in the upheaval of the 1960s. The Cuban missile crisis has brought the Communist threat to within miles of the United States, and extremist movements roil the American Right.
Two college students, Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein, meet in the fall of 1960. They embark on separate paths: Woodroe goes to work for the indiscriminately anti-Communist John Birch Society, while Leonora becomes a novitiate in the libertarian-objectivist cult of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. But a singular romance blooms as they make their way through a tumultuous era, navigating the political fault line that would change American history.
Woodroe, a former Mormon missionary to Austria, has experienced firsthand the workings of Communist repression, and has the bullet wound to prove Soviet tenacity. Through his eyes, we see how anti-Communism defined American politics, and how Communist-in-every-bed extremists nearly defeated their own cause.
Leonora, meanwhile, works at the feet of the brilliant, resourceful, and imaginative Ayn Rand. Through her, we witness how sexual passion shaped Rand’s movement.
Along the way, Buckley takes us into John F. Kennedy’s Oval Office as the president wrestles with Castro, the Soviet Union, and his domestic opponents in the GOP. We are at Oxford, Mississippi, when student riots overwhelm the city following the court-ordered integration of Ole Miss. We go into backroom meetings with Barry Goldwater as he fights for the presidency, dogged by demands that he disavow the radical conservatives. And, along with the Warren Commission, which is probing the assassination of President Kennedy, we enter a bizarre world of domestic political intrigue.
Buckley sweeps us along, as we meet and mingle with some of the towering figures of that age, from Robert Kennedy to Richard Nixon, from General Douglas MacArthur to the blustering General Edwin Walker. There is a glimpse of a bright young economist named Alan Greenspan, and of an energetic young journalist named Bill Buckley.
Getting It Right has all the Buckley trademarks—wit, passion, and a heady view of political life. It is a riveting story and an original contribution to the history of postwar America.
I sooooooo want a copy of this. Does anyone have a review copy? I need it. I want it. I must have it.
And there is this: Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein
Remind anyone else of Hubbell Gardner and Katie Morosky?
Nah.....
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