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Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

In 1951, with the publication of GOD AND MAN AT YALE, a scathing attack on his alma mater, 25-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr., seized the public stage --- and commanded it for the next half-century as he led a new generation of conservative activists and ideologues to the peak of political power and cultural influence. Ten years before his death in 2008, Buckley chose prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full, uncensored story of his life and times, granting him extensive interviews and exclusive access to his most private papers. Thus began a deep investigation into the vast and often hidden universe of Bill Buckley and the modern conservative revolution.

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Week of June 1, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of June 1st include THE STOLEN QUEEN, an utterly addictive novel from Fiona Davis that transports readers from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back; James Lee Burke's fifth Holland Family novel, DON’T FORGET ME, LITTLE BESSIE, an epic story of a remarkable young girl who fights against potentially overwhelming forces; MARK TWAIN, in which Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature; and THE LISTENERS by Maggie Stiefvater, a mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel --- and a world --- in peril.

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