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The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Hillary Clinton to David Petraeus, The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley offers his own nominations for smartest personage of the decade. Barack Obama, for turning a convention speech into the presidency in four years. Chesley "Sully"...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
... novels showing cross-cultural connections gone wrong that I've ever read.) Losing Mum and Pup , Christopher Buckley--U.S. (Another without a cross-cultural component, but loss of parents is cross-cultural and Buckley's dad, William F. Buckley certainly had a lot of opinions about the world.) Zeitoun, Dave Eggers--U.S. (Syrian connection) I met Dave Eggers. He's as wonderful...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Members of the NR family have been honored by the New York Times for writing some of the best books of the year. Christopher Buckley’s Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir made the list of the hundred most notable books of 2009. And Terry Teachout’s Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michiko Kakutani for her personal top-ten list . (Occasional...