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William F. Buckley Jr.

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

November 24, 1925

Died

February 27, 2008

Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Politics

Influences

Friedrich A. von Hayek, Whittaker Chambers, Albert Jay Nock ...more

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William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line 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 "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century," according to George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement. "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 17,359 ratings · 1,652 reviews · 181 distinct works • Similar authors

	God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom' 3.72 avg rating — 2,109 ratings — published 1951 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving the Queen (Blackford Oakes, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 970 ratings — published 1976 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century by William F. Buckley Jr., James Rosen (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 860 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stained Glass (Blackford Oakes, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 646 ratings — published 1978 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography by William F. Buckley Jr., Walter Cronkite (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reagan I Knew 3.73 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's on First (Blackford Oakes, #3) 3.78 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1980 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marco Polo, If You Can (Blackford Oakes, #4) 3.75 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1981 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review 3.96 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	See You Later Alligator (Blackford Oakes, #6) 3.80 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1985 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

tags: hypocrisy

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“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley

tags: liberalism, liberals, politics

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“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”
― William F. Buckley

tags: civil-liberties, civil-rights, drug-laws, drugs, marijuana, prohibition

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