String of Pearls

Priscilla Buckley wasn't exactly Zelig, but she was witness to several important moments in history, as this entertaining memoir of her years with United Press in New York and Paris attests. Decades after the events depicted in this volume, when Buckley was managing editor of her brother's magazine, she was kind enough to drop a note of encouragement to a pompous college student on the occasion of his launching of a right-wing campus newsletter.