William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the late-20th century United States.
Buckley hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line (1966–1999), the longest-running public affairs show in American television history with a single host, where he became known for his distinctive Mid-Atlantic idiolect and wide vocabulary
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Buckley’s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume - a “veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library” (Library Journal). Edited by Samuel S. Vaughan.
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In Happy Days Were Here Again, William F. Buckley Jr. offers a collection of his finest essays from the latter part of his long career. Sometimes celebrating, sometimes assailing, Buckley takes on opponents ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Carl Sagan...
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Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates
Published in: English
Editions available: 2
Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's "unconventional convention coverage."
Published in: English
Editions available: 2
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
Thema Categories: Political Leader Biographies
Published in: English
Editions available: 4
If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward.
Thema Categories: Political Leader Biographies
Published in: English
Editions available: 4
The Reagan I Knew
Published in: English
Editions available: 5
No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House.
Published in: English
Editions available: 5
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review
Thema Categories: Political Humor
Published in: English
Editions available: 3
National Review has always published letters from readers. In 1965 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and William F. Buckley, the editor, began a column called "Notes & Asides" in which he personally replied to the most...
Thema Categories: Political Humor
Published in: English
Editions available: 3
Last Call for Blackford Oakes: (The Blackford Oakes Mysteries Book 11)
Thema Categories: Espionage Thrillers
Published in: English
Editions available: 5
More than twenty years ago William F. Buckley Jr. launched the dashing character of Blackford Oakes like a missile over the literary landscape. This newly minted CIA agent-brainy, bold, and complex-began his career by saving the queen of England and...
Thema Categories: Espionage Thrillers
Published in: English
Editions available: 5
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Thema Categories: European history
Published in: English
Editions available: 3
Eloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism.
—The Baltimore Sun
Thema Categories: European history
Published in: English
Editions available: 3
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
Thema Categories: Philosophical Essays
Published in: English
Editions available: 4
Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence. Included are essays that capture Buckley's joyful boyhood and family life; his...
Thema Categories: Philosophical Essays
Published in: English
Editions available: 4
Getting It Right: A Novel
Published in: English
Editions available: 3
Founder of National Review, Bill Buckley gives us a witty and unusual novel, which charts the birth of the American modern conservative movement. From the Hungarian uprising of 1956, to Cold War espionage, tempestuous romance, and political skullduggery, Buckley provides...
Published in: English
Editions available: 3
Nuremberg: The Reckoning
Thema Categories: Classic Literature & Fiction
Published in: English
Editions available: 4
Sebastian Reinhardt, a young German-American, is yanked from routine army duty in America to serve as an interpreter at Nuremberg's Palace of Justice in 1945. He hears the stories of the infamous Nazi killers and war makers, who face prosecutors...
Thema Categories: Classic Literature & Fiction
Published in: English
Editions available: 4
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