More than two decades in the making, the definitive biography of William F. Buckley Jr. tells the story of America's greatest conservative and the rise and fall of the movement he led. In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale, a scathing attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F. Buckley Jr. instantly seized the public stage--and commanded it for the next half century as he led a new generation of conservative...