Product Description: [Read by Geoffrey Blaisdell]A charismatic German aristocrat is rallying the country toward reunification, stirring panic on both sides of the Iron Curtain. When he becomes entangled with a beautiful KGB agent, Blackford Oakes faces a moral dilemma.

Product Description: President Kennedy has selected CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes to meet with Che Guevara inside Castros Cuba. But the Communists have a double-cross in mind, with terrifying consequences.

Product Description: The cold war is hot, and in Washington, all attention is focused on the race to put the first satellite in space. Blackford Oakes is put in charge of a plot to kidnap a pair of Russian scientists who can put the U.S. in the lead.

The late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House. Ronald Reagan and Bill Buckley were political allies and close friends throughout Reagan's political career. They went on vacations together and shared inside jokes. They understood and taught each other for decades, and together they changed history. This book presents an American political giant as seen by another giant, who knew him perhaps better than anyone else. It's the most revealing portrait of Ronald Reagan the world is likely to have.

Product Description: In Happy Days Were Here Again, William F. Buckley Jr. offers a collection of his finest essays from the latter part of his long career. Sometimes celebrating, sometimes assailing, Buckley takes on opponents ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Carl Sagan to Leonard Bernstein; reflects on the academic scene, the Gulf War, and the idea of sin; and offers appreciations of friends, both right and left...read more

Encompassing four decades of work from the 'National Review,' a compilation of essays, articles, letters, and columns by the noted conservative thinker includes his exchanges with Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John Kenneth Galbraith, and other critics and admirers.