Patrick J. Buchanan Author of A Republic, Not an Empire Patrick J. Buchanan was born on November 2, 1938, in Washington, D.C. He was educated at Jesuit schools and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1961 from Georgetown University. In 1962, he earned his master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. At twenty-three, he became the youngest editorial writer on a major newspaper in America, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In 1966 Pat Buchanan became the first full-time staffer in the legendary comeback of Richard Nixon. He traveled with the future president in the campaigns of 1966 and 1968, and served as special assistant and confidant to the president through Nixon’s final days of Watergate. He left the White House to become a syndicated columnist and returned in 1985 to serve as the White House Director of Communications for Ronald Reagan. In his eight years in the White House, Pat Buchanan wrote foreign policy speeches and attended four summits, including Mr. Nixon’s historic opening to China in 1972 and Ronald Reagan’s Reykjavik summit in 1986 with Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1992, Pat Buchanan challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination and almost upset the president in the New Hampshire primary. In 1996 he won the New Hampshire primary, and went on to finish second to Senator Robert Dole, with three million Republican votes. In the 1980s, Pat Buchanan became a founding father of three of the most enduring—if not most endearing—talk shows in television history: NBC’s The McLaughlin Group and CNN’s Capital Gang and Crossfire. He also hosted his own national radio show, Buchanan and Company. Pat Buchanan has written five books, including a bestseller about growing up in the nation’s capital, Right from the Beginning. In 1998, his book on U.S. trade policy, titled The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy, was published. He lives with his wife, Shelley—a member of the White House staff from 1969 to 1975—in McLean, Virginia. Price: $22.36 - Click here to order A Republic, Not an Empire