Great. Outstanding antidote to the current (it is always current) imagining that these times (and only THESE times) are seeing the apocalyptic breakdown of political civility. This book reminds that things were in many ways far worse in the 68-72 time period. Skewering portraits of Wm. Kunstler, SDS... even Humphey. Elegant style, though reading so much at one time, I come to expect it almost as a formula from Buckley rather than being amazed at it when I read in small doses. An excellent on the ground history of the feeling / zeitgeist at the time rather than just the too easy recollection and summary of a time. ( )