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Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement, by Richard Brookhiser (Basic, 262 pp., $27.50)
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RICHARD BROOKHISER in the late 1960s was a clever young student in upstate New York, unconventional only in being somewhat more conservative and more bookish than his peers, when he unexpectedly entered history by mailing to NATIONAL REVIEW a drily skeptical essay on a student protest at his high school. He lived in a pleasant suburb of Rochester. His parents were respectable, law-abiding, and dutiful middle-class Americans. They demonstrated this most flamboyantly by voting Republican. ...