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William F. Buckley
24 November 1925 - 27 February 2008
William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words.
George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to politics was the fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.
Buckley wrote first God and Man at Yale (1951); among over fifty further books on writing, speaking, history, politics and sailing, were a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He was a practicing Roman Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut.
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Up from liberalism
14 editions - first published in 1959 Borrow -
Saving the Queen
12 editions - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Stained Glass
11 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow -
Tucker's Last Stand
10 editions - first published in 1990 DAISY -
High jinx
9 editions - first published in 1986 Borrow -
See you later alligator
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Marco Polo, if you can
8 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
Airborne: A Sentimental Journey
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McCarthy and his enemies: the record and its meaning
6 editions - first published in 1954 Borrow -
The story of Henri Tod
6 editions - first published in 1984 Borrow -
Miles Gone by
6 editions - first published in 2004 DAISY -
Flying high: remembering Barry Goldwater
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Gratitude
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A very private plot: a Blackford Oakes novel
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Mongoose, R.I.P: a Blackford Oakes novel
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Atlantic high: a celebration
5 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
God and man at Yale: the superstitions of "academic freedom"
5 editions - first published in 1951 Borrow -
Who's on first: a Blackford Oakes mystery
5 editions - first published in 1920 Borrow -
Spytime
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Mongoose R.I.P
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WindFall: the end of the affair
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The Rake: A Novel
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Happy days were here again: reflections of a libertarian journalist
4 editions - first published in 1993 Borrow -
Getting It Right
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Nuremberg
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Rumbles left and right
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The unmaking of a mayor
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Overdrive: a personal documentary
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Right reason: a collection
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Brothers no more
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A hymnal: the controversial arts
3 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow -
Elvis in the Morning
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Marco Polo, If You Can
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Spytime
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Mongoose, R.I.P
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Elvis in the Morning
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The committee and its critics: a calm review of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
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United Nations journal: a delegate's odyssey.
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Let us talk of many things: the collected speeches
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The Buckley-Little Catalogue: The Only Catalogue of Books Available from Authors/1986
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Racing through paradise: a Pacific passage
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Airborne
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Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought
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Gratitude: reflections on what we owe to our country
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Cruising speed--a documentary
2 editions - first published in 1971 Borrow -
The Redhunter: a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy
2 editions - first published in 1999 Borrow -
On the firing line: the public life of our public figures
2 editions - first published in 1989 Read -
Nearer, my God: an autobiography of faith
2 editions - first published in 1997 Borrow -
Athwart history
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Athwart history
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See You Later Alliga
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The lexicon
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Spytime: the undoing of James Jesus Angleton : a novel
1 edition - first published in 2001 DAISY -
Execution eve, and other contemporary ballads
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Mongroose R I P
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Buckley-Little Book Catalogue 1987
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Selected Works of W.A. Mozart (Speedlearning)
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La vidriera
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Four reforms: A program for the 70's (A Berkley medallion book)
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Selected Works of Js Bach
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Just William - An Eton Diary
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
The governor listeth: a book of inspired political revelations
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
The world of Soviet disinformation
1 edition - first published in 1980 -
Up from liberalism [by] William F. Buckley, Jr: Introd. by Barry Goldwater. Foreword by John Dos Passos.
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Unmaking of a May
1 edition - first published in 1966 -
Will the Real Jesus Please Stand-Up!
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
McCarthy and His Enemies; The Record and Its Meaning
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
On faith and religious institutions
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
Quotations from Chairman Bill
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Tuckers Last Stand-19.95
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Taiwan: the West Berlin of China
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Windfall
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Did you ever see a dream walking?: American conservative thought in the twentieth century.
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Operation Mongoose, R.I.P
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The Buckley-Little Catalogue 1985
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr
1 edition - first published in 2009 -
Buckley, the right word
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Tucker's last stand
1 edition - first published in 1990 DAISY -
American conservative thought in the twentieth century
1 edition - first published in 2011 -
American conservative thought in the twentieth century
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Let Us Talk of Many Things
1 edition - first published in 2000 DAISY -
Inveighing we will go
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
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Operation Mongoose
1 edition - first published in 1988 -
Buckley: the right word
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Miles Bone By
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Last call for Blackford Oakes
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Hymnal the Controversial Arts
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The Reagan I knew
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The Reagan I Knew
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Buckley
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The rake
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The Role of the Advocate CD
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Miles gone by
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
Marco Polo, if you can
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Airborne
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Happy Days Were Here Again-Pre
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Brothers No More
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Four reforms--a guide for the seventies
1 edition - first published in 1973 Borrow
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