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Reference is made to his membership on both the swimming and lacrosse teams there, and he is a member of Zeta Psi fraternity. Sally Partridge, a Vassar graduate, is his main love interest throughout the series. Their fateful meeting and Blackford's courtship of Sally is detailed in Mongoose, R.I.P.
Dec 24, 2017 · Except for Reagan, Buckley had no relationship with occupants of the White House that warrant chapters in a book. What is more, in “Bill and Ronnie: Advising a President,” the second chapter devoted to Reagan, Felzenberg misses the opportunity that two recent Buckley biographers did not.
Mar 11, 2018 · His father is a fighter jet salesman and divorced from his mother, who is remarried to a wealthy, knighted Brit and living in London. His childhood hero is Charles Lindbergh, his father’s best friend, and he spends summers as a teenager at a camp in Maine.
Jan 29, 1988 · NEW YORK -- William F. Buckley Jr. denies that his fictional hero Blackford Oakes is his alter ego, but admits that when the day comes that Oakes gets married, his view of marital fidelity...
Blackford Oakes is written as an incredibly handsome, virile man who is equally at home in the dining hall of Windsor Castle and in a back bedroom of a French burlesque house. In that regards he might sound like a twin to James Bond but in action and in thought he is worlds apart.
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Saving the Queen is a 1976 American spy thriller novel by William F. Buckley, Jr., the first of eleven novels in the Blackford Oakes series. [1]
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Jul 17, 2005 · Oakes, veteran CIA agent, was in secret and unshared touch with a Soviet defector he had long experienced as antagonist, but who was now a hidden ally.
