William F. Buckley Jr. found fame as the voice of conservatism. Founder of the National Review, the conservative journal of opinion of which he was editor-in-chief until 1990, Buckley also worked as an influential political advisor and popular novelist. Buckley aptly described the effect of his National Review through his character Boris Bolgin in his spy novel Who's on First. "'Do you ever read the National Review, Jozsef?', asks Boris Bolgin, the chief of KGB counter intelligence for Western Europe, 'It is edited by this young bourgeois fanatic. Oh, how they cried about the repression of the counter-revolutionaries in Budapest! But the National Review it is also angry with the CIA for—I don't know; not starting up a Third World War, maybe? Last week—I always read the National Review, it makes me so funny mad—last week an...