SAM TANENHAUS, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the author of the national bestsellers Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and The Death of Conservatism. His feature articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently a contributing writer for The Washington Post. His latest book is Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America (Random House).