Gleanings from an Unplanned Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gleanings from an Unplanned Life write by James L. Buckley. This book was released on 2006. Gleanings from an Unplanned Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "I was born in an elevator in New York City's Women's Hospital in the early hours of March 9, 1923. That was the first of a series of unplanned, unanticipatable events that have shaped my life. It was also a rather unceremonious way to enter the world. I wouldn't have entered it at all, however, had it not been for an allergy gene that caused my paternal grandfather, who was beset by asthma, to abandon Canada for the starker landscape of south Texas. At least it seems unlikely that my father would have courted my New Orleans mother if he had been reared in Canada." "I grew up in a small rural community located in the northwest corner of Connecticut beyond commuting range from anywhere. I loved the life there; and while bobbing around the Pacific as a naval officer in World War II, I decided on a career as a country lawyer. After four years learning the trade at a New Haven law firm in preparation for a move to the country, I was lured away by my father and found myself working for a family business headquartered in New York City. Then through a series of wildly improbable circumstances, beginning with the decision of my brother Bill to run for the office of mayor of New York City on the strict understanding that he could not win, I have found myself among the very few who have served in high positions in all three branches of the federal government; in my case, as a senator, an under secretary of state, and, most recently, as an appellate judge."
Gleanings from Life
Gleanings from Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gleanings from Life write by Magdalena D. H. Baker. This book was released on 1931. Gleanings from Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gleanings from Life
Gleanings from Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gleanings from Life write by L. J. Schlattman. This book was released on 1926. Gleanings from Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
William F. Buckley Sr.
William F. Buckley Sr. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William F. Buckley Sr. write by John A. Adams. This book was released on 2023-03-23. William F. Buckley Sr. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1909, young William F. Buckley Sr. (1881–1958), who grew up in the dusty South Texas town of San Diego, graduated from the University of Texas law school and headed for Mexico City. Fluent in Spanish, familiar with Mexican traditions, and soon fit to practice law south of the border, Buckley was headed up the aisle to vast wealth and cultural power. On the way, he took a front-row seat at the Mexican Revolution and played a key role in steering the nascent oil industry through tumultuous and dangerous times. This book for the first time tells the story of the man behind the family that would become nothing short of a conservative institution, reaching its apogee in the career of William F. Buckley Jr., arguably the most prominent conservative commentator of the twentieth century. Buckley witnessed the overthrow and exit of President Porfirio Díaz, the rise of Madero, and the coup of General Victoriano Huerta, all while building the Pantepec Oil Company, the most profitable small petroleum producer in Mexico. He faced down Pancho Villa, survived encounters with hired assassins, evaded snipers in the streets of Veracruz, gambled and won in many a business venture—and ultimately was expelled from the country. As the narrative follows Buckley from his small-town Texas beginnings to the founding of a family dynasty, the streak of independence and distrust of government that would become the Buckley hallmark can be seen in the making. An eventful chapter in the life and career of a singular character, this dramatic account of a man and his moment is a document of political and historical significance—but it is also a remarkable story, told with irresistible brio.
Gleanings from My Life
Gleanings from My Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gleanings from My Life write by William Wakinshaw. This book was released on 1931. Gleanings from My Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
