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Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 452
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
167 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of Buckley's career, including his role as back-channel adviser to policy makers, his intimate friendship with both Ronald and Nancy Reagan, his changing views on civil rights, and his break with George W. Bush over the Iraq War....
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your...
10) Best of enemies
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America.
12) Right time, right place: coming of age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the conservative movement
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
vii, 262 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr., were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the 1960s: the counterculture, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the two were close friends and trusted confidantes who lived surprisingly parallel lives. In Buckley and...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
lxxii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Few conservatives are as revered and admired as William F. Buckley. Buckley is best known for founding National Review, the flagship journal of the right. But his long-running talk show Firing Line was equally important, because it allowed him to reach beyond the conservative enclave and engage millions of mainstream Americans. When Firing Line premiered in 1966, only two years after Barry Goldwater's blow-out defeat in the 1964 presidential election,...
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