Roscoe on Michael Hoffman's Revelation of the Method

Thank you Michael for the amplification in regard to WFB jr's capacity for knavery and treachery. Joseph Sobran was another who should have watched his back. Overpraised as a writer by people who should have known better and apparently believing every word of it, Buckley's prose was often elliptical and vague. Buchanan was the better writer, often achieving eloquence by not striving for it. Many years ago, after any appreciation I might have had for Buckley had worn off, I was given a subscription to National Review by my mother (bless her). I plodded though each of them looking in vain for something worthwhile and it was only with every other issue, when "The Misanthrope's Corner" by Florence King appeared, that I was rewarded. Buckley was outclassed even in his own publication.