Bestselling satirist Christopher Buckley (
Thank You for Smoking, Supreme Courtship) lost both his parents in 2007. Their death was not entirely unexpected - Buckley was 55 years old, and both Mum and Pup (as he called them) were in their eighties, and in failing health. The interesting part of this memoir is that his Pup was world-famous Conservative author, icon, television personality, and intimate of Presidents William F. Buckley, Jr.; and that his Mum was the almost equally famous society figure, charity fundraiser, extremely tall person (5', 11"), and intimate of
everybody Patricia Taylor Buckley.
