"Losing Mum and Pop" by Christopher Buckley

I do recommend this brand new book by the son of William F Buckley. It is unusually candid and well-written but the author has a bad habit of making an effort to appear literary and ironic. There is way too much effort in the book, and to throw in literary references when it is not even warranted. But it is rare for people (especially in the family values' countries of US and Lebanon) to speak candidly and critically about their parents. Lately, I notice that everyone wants to make the sayings of his/her father and grandfather as profound as the aphorisms of Nietzsche. And in some cases you know their father and grandfather and you don't or didn't see wisdom in them at all. I also thought that William F Buckley was a good writer (as fanatical as he was--remember his book in defense of McCarthy? , and as much as I despised him) and his book about anti-Semitism and Pat Buchanan is a really skillful work of effective polemics.