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  <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine &lt;i&gt;National Review&lt;/i&gt; in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show &lt;I&gt;Firing Line&lt;/I&gt; 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.

Buckley was &quot;arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century,&quot; according to George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement. &quot;For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure.&quot; Buckley's primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political conservatism with economic libertarianism and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of US Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and US President Ronald Reagan.

Buckley came on the public scene with his critical book &lt;I&gt;God and Man at Yale&lt;/I&gt; (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 &quot;on and off&quot; as either libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, and often signed his name as &quot;WFB.&quot; He was a practicing Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut.
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  <title><![CDATA[God and Man at Yale]]></title>
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  <published>1977</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography]]></title>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Saving the Queen]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from the National Review]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Who's on First: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[See You Later Alligator (Blackford Oakes Novel)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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        <book id="3797514">
  <title><![CDATA[The Reagan I Knew]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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        <book id="129871">
  <title><![CDATA[Marco Polo, If You Can  (Blackford Oakes Novel)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William F. Buckley Jr.]]></name>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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