{"title": "William F. Buckley, Jr., and the American conservative movement", "covers": [1250678], "subject_places": ["United States"], "subjects": ["Biography", "Journalists", "Buckley, william f. (william frank), 1925-2008", "Journalists, united states", "Journalists, biography", "Conservatism"], "subject_people": ["William F. Buckley (1925-2008)"], "key": "/works/OL4133224W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL776632A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2740983A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Would there be an American conservative movement without William F. Buckley, Jr.? Perhaps. Would it be the robust, broad-based, politically dominant force that it is today? Almost certainly not. When he launched National Review in 1955, Buckley forged a powerful alliance among libertarians, traditionalists, anti-Communists, and other fractious factions of the right, focusing their attention on a single objective: to break the liberal stranglehold on America. Here, two longtime Buckley colleagues place his many accomplishments in their original contexts for a unique view of the man, the journal, and how they shaped the most important political and social movement of the last half century.--From publisher description."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T05:26:02.202492"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-25T20:50:49.583650"}}