Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After graduation, Keene got a job with conservative Senator James I. Buckley (R.NY), first as his receptionist and eventually as his legislative assistant. Working with Buckley, too reinforced her growing conservatism. "He is incredible articulate and I began to listen to the things he used...
...After Buckley was defeated for re-election in 1976, Keene went to work for a Washington public relations firm, where she wrote radio address for public officials, including the pre-presidential Ronald Reagan...
...Bondage fantasy, hero and bimbo attempt to defuse the situation, only to get captured, manacled and headed toward annihilation. But Dr. Castro is not Dr. No, Che is not Goldfinger, and the Cuban missile crisis was not some apocalyptic fantasy. It is to Buckley's credit that within his fiction, actual events are made as urgent and terrifying as they were in the bad old days...
Along the way, Buckley amuses himself by playing fly on the wall. In the White House, President John F. Kennedy muses, "It took me two years before I figured out that Harry Truman was Harry Truman's real name. I thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup...
Still, history through hindsight is a mug's game, and Buckley never forgets his plot or pace. If Blackford Oakes had a bit more wattage--his creator could spare some--he might be worth an additional sequel or two. As for Castro, one suspects that he is so plausible because Buckley shares many of his attributes --among them an affection for crowds. The author dedicates this book to 49 nephews and nieces and acknowledges help from 22 individuals. One of them, he says, "couldn't stand the book's title, and I think the world should know how heavily...