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[[Image:6436rtdhgf.jpg|right|thumb|William F. Buckley, Jr., on his long-running television show [[Firing Line]].]] | [[Image:6436rtdhgf.jpg|right|thumb|William F. Buckley, Jr., on his long-running television show [[Firing Line]].]] | ||
| − | '''William Frank Buckley Jr.''' (November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2008) was a prominent [[conservative]] author and commentator, and the founder of the [[National Review]]. He was also host of [[Firing Line]], a talk show featured for years on the otherwise [[liberal]] public television. He was admired on both sides of the political spectrum for his seemingly limitless vocabulary, and his intellectual wit. | + | '''William Frank Buckley Jr.''' (New York City, November 24, 1925 - Stanford, February 27, 2008) was born in a devoutly [[Roman Catholic]] family. Buckley was a prominent [[conservative]] author and commentator, and the founder of the [[National Review]]. He was also host of [[Firing Line]], a talk show featured for years on the otherwise [[liberal]] public television. He was admired on both sides of the political spectrum for his seemingly limitless vocabulary, and his intellectual wit. |
| − | He was educated in an [[English]] preparatory school as a teenager. As young man, he wrote an influential book about his college experiences entitled, "God and Man at Yale." He also studied Spanish in [[Mexico City]]. | + | He was educated in an [[English]] preparatory school as a teenager. As young man, he wrote an influential book about his college experiences entitled, "God and Man at Yale." He was educated in [[England]] and [[France]], and also studied Spanish in [[Mexico City]] (UNAM). Buckley graduated from the Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY, in 1943. |
Buckley founded in 1955 the National Review (NR), a biweekly magazine of political opinion. Ronald Reagan was a longtime subscriber to National Review. Through the magazine he foster the idea of a conservative movement. | Buckley founded in 1955 the National Review (NR), a biweekly magazine of political opinion. Ronald Reagan was a longtime subscriber to National Review. Through the magazine he foster the idea of a conservative movement. | ||
Revision as of 03:41, May 3, 2008
William Frank Buckley Jr. (New York City, November 24, 1925 - Stanford, February 27, 2008) was born in a devoutly Roman Catholic family. Buckley was a prominent conservative author and commentator, and the founder of the National Review. He was also host of Firing Line, a talk show featured for years on the otherwise liberal public television. He was admired on both sides of the political spectrum for his seemingly limitless vocabulary, and his intellectual wit.
He was educated in an English preparatory school as a teenager. As young man, he wrote an influential book about his college experiences entitled, "God and Man at Yale." He was educated in England and France, and also studied Spanish in Mexico City (UNAM). Buckley graduated from the Millbrook School in Millbrook, NY, in 1943.
Buckley founded in 1955 the National Review (NR), a biweekly magazine of political opinion. Ronald Reagan was a longtime subscriber to National Review. Through the magazine he foster the idea of a conservative movement.
Buckley, doing it his way, became one of the most influential writers and journalists of the past century – in the august company of Walter Lippmann, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and George Orwell. The latter two came to symbolize what was at stake in the spiritual and moral struggle against the totalitarian mentality. But Buckley spearheaded the counterrevolution in the West that emboldened Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II to confront and defeat the Soviet Empire. [1]
Even friendly biographers do not give him adequate credit in deconstructing liberalism ... Buckley did not elevate conservatism to a major political force simply because he was a charming guy, though that didn’t hurt; but because he laid bare with a penetrating logic the inconsistencies of liberal and leftist thought. [2]
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- William F. Buckley Jr. on Conservatism: An Interview Bill Steigerwald, Human Events, 11/19/2007
- William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82, New York Times, 2/27/2008