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Athwart History

Author : William F. Buckley (Jr.)
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 159403379X
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Athwart History written by William F. Buckley (Jr.) and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but a popularizer, someone who could bring conservative ideas to a vast audience through dazzling writing and lively wit. Culled from millions of published words spanning nearly sixty years, Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations offers Buckley’s commentary on the American and international scenes, in areas ranging from Kremlinology to rock music. The subjects are widely varied, but there are common threads linking them all: a love for the Western tradition and its American manifestation; the belief that human beings thrive best in a free society; the conviction that such a society is worth defending at all costs; and an appreciation for the quirky individuality that free people inevitably develop.

Athwart History

Author : Roger Kimball
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458787044
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Athwart History written by Roger Kimball and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the postwar period, William F. Buckley Jr. Was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckleys own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but, in the highest sense of the term, a popularizer, someone who could bring conservative ideas to a vast audience through dazzling writing and lively wit. Culled from millions of published words spanning nearly sixty years, Athwart History; Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations offers Buckleys commentary on the American and international scenes, in areas ranging from Kremlinology to rock music. The subjects are widely varied, but there are common threads linking them all; a love for the Western tradition and its American manifestation; the belief that human beings thrive best in a free society; the conviction that such a society is worth defending at all costs; and an appreciation for the quirky individuality that free people inevitably develop.

Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription

Author : William F. Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759466
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription written by William F. Buckley, Jr. and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Review has always published letters from readers. In 1965 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and William F. Buckley, the editor, began a column called ''Notes & Asides'' in which he personally replied to the most notable and outrageous correspondence. Culled from four decades of the column, Cancel Your Own God dam Subscription includes exchanges with such well-known figures as Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John Kenneth Galbraith, A.M. Rosenthal, Auberon Waugh, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and many others. There are also hilarious exchanges with ordinary readers, as well as letters from Buckley to various organizations and government agencies. Combative, brilliant, and uproariously funny, Cancel Your Own God dam Subscription represents Buckley at his mischievous best.

God and Man at Yale

Author : William F. Buckley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596988037
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book God and Man at Yale written by William F. Buckley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work—a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias. In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude" that prevailed at his alma mater. The book, God and Man at Yale, rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr. into the public spotlight. Now, half a century later, read the extraordinary work that began the modern conservative movement. Buckley's harsh assessment of his alma mater divulged the reality behind the institution's wholly secular education, even within the religion department and divinity school. Unabashed, one former Yale student details the importance of Christianity and heralds the modern conservative movement in his preeminent tell-all, God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom."

Strictly Right

Author : Linda Bridges
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471758175
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Strictly Right written by Linda Bridges and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-04-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affectionate portrait of the man who started it all "With this graceful homage to Bill Buckley, two people who have known the pleasure of his company as friends and colleagues place him where he incontestably belongs--at the center of the conservative political movement that moved the center of American politics to the right." --George F. Will, Newsweek "Strictly Right paints an intimate and penetrating portrait of the elegant and multifaceted figure who has helped to add a new dimension to the American political canvas." --Henry A. Kissinger "Bill and I and others have been good friends for almost sixty years and I thought I knew of his life as well as anyone, but Linda and John have brought the events together in a magnificent story that surpasses all that we have absorbed. If you like and admire Bill, you must read this. If you don't, read it anyway--it will be good for you." --Evan G. Galbraith, former Ambassador to France and Chairman of National Review "Linda Bridges and John Coyne evoke the true old times, when every morning brought a noble chance, and every chance brought out William F. Buckley Jr., ready to write, speak, question, provoke, tease, or praise, in print, in person, or on the tube, as required. All honor to him, and to the authors who capture him in these pages." --Richard Brookhiser, author of What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers

The Fire Is Upon Us

Author : Nicholas Buccola
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210772
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Fire Is Upon Us written by Nicholas Buccola and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2019.

A Man and His Presidents

Author : Alvin Felzenberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300166893
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Man and His Presidents written by Alvin Felzenberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new understanding of the man who changed the face of American politics William F. Buckley Jr. is widely regarded as the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the postwar era. In this nuanced biography, Alvin Felzenberg sheds light on little-known aspects of Buckley’s career, including his role as back-channel adviser to policy makers, his intimate friendship with both Ronald and Nancy Reagan, his changing views on civil rights, and his break with George W. Bush over the Iraq War. Felzenberg demonstrates how Buckley conveyed his message across multiple platforms and drew upon his vast network of contacts, his personal charm, his extraordinary wit, and his celebrity status to move the center of political gravity in the United States closer to his point of view. Including many rarely seen photographs, this account of one of the most compelling personalities of American politics will appeal to conservatives, liberals, and even the apolitical.

A Torch Kept Lit

Author : William F. Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 1101906219
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Torch Kept Lit written by William F. Buckley, Jr. and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen. In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley, Jr. achieved unique stature as a writer, a celebrity, and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He kept company with the best and brightest, the sultry and powerful. Ronald Reagan pronounced WFB “perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era,” and his jet-setting life was a who’s who of high society, fame, and fortune. Among all his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and hosting the long-running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was also a master of that most elusive art form: the eulogy. He drew on his unrivaled gifts to mourn, celebrate, or seek mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation. Now, for the first time, WFB’s sweeping judgments of the great figures of his time—presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar gods—are collected in one place. A Torch Kept Lit presents more than fifty of Buckley’s best eulogies, drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelist’s touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them. We are reintroduced, through Buckley’s eyes, to the likes of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Truman Capote and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, a Buckley protégé and frequent contributor to National Review, this volumes sheds light on a tumultuous period in American history—from World War II to Watergate, the “death” of God to the Grateful Dead—as told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists.William F. Buckley, Jr. is back—just when we need him most.

A Brief History of American Culture

Author : Robert M. Crunden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317478282
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of American Culture written by Robert M. Crunden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The discussion of each period is wide-ranging, analyzing movements and spotlighting major figures in politics and philosophy, law and literature, economics and education, jazz and journalism, science and civil rights. A readable, insightful overview of the underlying patterns that give shape to U.S. cultural history. Nonacademic readers will find Crunden's selective bibliographical essay helpful". -- Booklist

The Magazine of American History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Magazine of American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Author : John Austin Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries written by John Austin Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buckley

Author : Carl T. Bogus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193551
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Buckley written by Carl T. Bogus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is an insightful book that will please anyone interested in midcentury American history and politics. Anyone serious about political philosophy will learn from it. Highly recommended.” -Library Journal (starred review) William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative movement that transformed American politics between the 1960s and the end of the century. When Buckley launched National Review in 1955, conservatism was a beleaguered, fringe segment of the Republican Party. Three decades later Ronald Reagan-who credited National Review with shaping his beliefs-was in the White House. Buckley and his allies devised a new-model conservatism that replaced traditional ideals of Edmund Burke with a passionate belief in the free market; religious faith; and an aggressive stance on foreign policy. Buckley's TV show, Firing Line, and his campaign for mayor of New York City made him a celebrity; his wit and zest for combat made conservatism fun. But Buckley was far more than a controversialist. Deploying his uncommon charm, shrewdly recruiting allies, quashing ideological competitors, and refusing to compromise on core principles, he almost single-handedly transformed conservatism from a set of retrograde attitudes into a revolutionary force.

William F. Buckley Jr

Author : William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549921506
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book William F. Buckley Jr written by William F. Buckley Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William F. Buckley Jr. was one of the most influential conservative commentators of the 20th century. He founded the National Review magazine in 1955, and the Firing Line television show in 1966, both of which have been focal to the modern conservative movement. In William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Values, topics include: * liberal lies and the hypocrisy of the left* the fanaticism of the professionally tolerant* race relations and dissatisfaction-baiting* why socialism doesn't work* taxation policies of the left and 'fairness'* how education is getting worse* and a return to civil morality

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316090522
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again written by David Foster Wallace and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

Against Trump

Author : National National Review
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692732342
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Against Trump written by National National Review and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of 2016 represents a defining moment for the conservative movement and the Republican party. Over six decades of work toward building a conservative majority in America is being imperiled by the rise of a liberal reality-show carnival barker who disguises himself as a conservative. Using an unparalleled command of marketing techniques, and assisted by a compliant, ratings-hungry media, Donald Trump has swayed millions of average Americans who are rightly fed up with the relentless attacks of multicultural leftists, the America-last tone and practices of the Obama administration, and rank incompetence from promise-breaking Republican lawmakers who had allegedly come to their political rescue. But what is a justified revolt has found an undeserving leader. It thus falls to honest conservatives to explain to our erstwhile companions why the choice they are making, out of anger and despair, is badly mistaken, for the sake of politics and, more so, for the sake of conservative principles. This book represents the ongoing efforts of the staff and editors of National Review to pull back the curtain on the Trump Show, and expose him as an ultimately dangerous demagogue and narcissist who cares more about his bank account and ego than he ever has for America's greatness.

The Right Words

Author : Wynton C. Hall
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620459663
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Right Words written by Wynton C. Hall and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning presidential scholar and speechwriter Wynton Hall brings together the Republican Party’s greatest oratorical gems, from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Teddy Roosevelt's the Man with the Muckrake to Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and George W. Bush's "our mission and our moment" speech after 9/11. Hall examines the historical context of each of these great addresses and reveals the persuasive secrets that make each speech truly outstanding.