- Fiction, Blackford Oakes (Fictitious character), United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency
In 1995, a U.S. Senator attempting to disarm the CIA asks the former head of the Agency's covert operations, Blackford Oakes, for an account of his covert activities. One activity involved a 1985 plot by a group of young Soviet soldiers to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Cool, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- William F. Buckley
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 261
- Publisher
- Morrow, Cumberland House Publishing, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786107223
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William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to politi
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