Sam Tanenhaus,  journalist, historian, biographer, and this fall's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist (DVJ) in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the author of “Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America.” He'll  discuss Buckley and the true meaning of his life and legacy in the Age of Donald Trump in a conversation with Peter Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.

In the space of a single generation (1950-1980), the journalist and author William F. Buckley led a small band of little-known conservatives to the peaks of political power and cultural influence. Ten years before his death, Bill Buckley chose journalist and historian Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full story of his life, granting him extensive uncensored interviews and exclusive access to his most private papers.