"Warm and self-deprecating, surprisingly witty, honest to a fault about his political
views...Mr. Buchanan has a secret weapon: Charm."New York Times

Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story
of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today, and how he came
to believe as he does. It is the intimate first-person account of how the third son in a devout
Catholic family of nine children, followed his explusion from Georgetown University at age
twenty-one with achieving the distinction two years laterwithout experience in journalism or
politicsof being the youngest editorial writer in America; then, at twenty-six, becoming Richard
M. Nixon's confidant as the began, despite being a twice-defeated ex-Vice President, the political
come back of the century.

But Right from the Beginning is more than a personal memoirit is the sometimes hilarious,
sometimes sad, poignant, and moving story of the Buchanan family; a book that brings alive again
America in the forties and fifties, when the faith was unquestioned and patriotism unconstrained.