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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 best known for his seemingly limitless vocabulary, and his intellectual wit. He was educated in an [[English]] preparatory school as a teenager.
'''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.
As young man, he wrote an influential book about his college experiences entitled, "God and Man at Yale." He remained [[conservative]] his entire life, but did part with other [[conservatives]] on a few issues after he became a celebrity.
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."
{{quotebox|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]]. [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/05/introduction-to-crossing-swords/]}}
{{quotebox|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]]. [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/05/introduction-to-crossing-swords/]}}
{{quotebox|Virtually all of the biographic accounts mentioned above credit Buckley for his humor, wit and decency, but even friendly biographers do not give him adequate credit in deconstructing liberalism with such efficiency and effectiveness. In short, it was not a question of style over substance, but rather of substance over counter-substance. 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. [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/03/05/introduction-to-crossing-swords/] }}
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