5 Classic Conservative Books By William F. Buckley Jr.

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, 2004

“I will not write, ever, a formal autobiography,” declares Buckley in his introduction. Instead, he weaves together his most personal writings from the past half-century — “scenes and essays in which I figure directly” — into a kind of narrative survey of his life, at work and play. “There are personal experiences, challenges and sorties, professional inquiries, and memories beginning in childhood. Everything in this book puts me in play, sometimes actively, sometimes in a passive way, but always there.”