...Specifically, let's look at the 1950's, when Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind was still a brand new book, William F. Buckley Jr.'s God and Man at Yale was flying off the shelves and a Republican who described himself as "conservative on economic issues,...
...Bill Buckley himself wrote about another great love affair: Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s. Read “The Way They Are,” by William F. Buckley Jr. Pat Buckley died on April 15, 2007, at age 80, of septic poisoning after a vascular operation on her left leg. Her memorial,...
...the Depression. The Republican Party was revived unexpectedly by somebody who was not even a Republican activist -- William F. Buckley Jr. Suddenly you had members of Congress in both chambers taking positions, trying to put together programs of action. The...
...named David Frye, who became popular doing Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Lyndon Johnson, and, remarkably, William F. Buckley Jr. Frye sold a lot of records, and appeared on The Tonight Show. Earlier, Vaughn Meader made a name for himself, and some cash,...
...a series of outrageous bailouts and buyouts while saddling generations of taxpayers with the bill. William F. Buckley died. Tony Snow died. Peter Rodman died. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died. Jesse Helms died. One year and a day ago as I write this (a year...
...not to do something about it. It spilled out of me. I wrote it in 40 days - no biblical associations intended." William F. Buckley Jr. was the author of 55 books, the founder of the National Review, a syndicated columnist and the host of PBS' "Firing Line"...
...To cite one of countless examples, in chapter 7, on the period 1969-1976, 13 lines on the argument between William F. Buckley and the libertarians are closely juxtaposed with 12 lines on the constituent mail received by two Republican congressmen from Oklahoma (one...
...once heard William F. Buckley Jr. say that, and it sounded cool. At the Z car’s U.S. introduction 40 years ago, Datsun wisely chose not to employ its domestic “Fairlady” moniker, which Yutaka Katayama knew would have been tantamount to calling, say, the Corvette...
...brothers. Originally from the East Coast, the Starrs were close friends with many journalists of the time, such as William F. Buckley. My parents were always voracious readers, enthusiastic and curious, and took me on trips that fed my intellectual hunger....
...his speeches. The author writes with an exuberantly vast vocabulary which probably would have sent the late William F. Buckley to the dictionary on several occasions: every few pages you come across a word like “roorback”, “eftsoons”, “sennight”, or “fleer”. For...