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Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches - Hardcover

Buckley, William F.

 
9780761525516: Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0761525513 ISBN 13: 9780761525516
Verlag: Prima Lifestyles, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Presents a collection of Buckley's most memorable speeches over the past fifty years.

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"To brutes of the left, Mr. Buckley is Savonarola; to those on the right, he is St. Francis of Assisi. His most inimitable pieces are those that skewer the people he doesn?t like, of whom there is no shortage." That's how a New York Times essayist summed up William F. Buckley Jr. one of the most authentic and authoritative journalistic voices of conservatism today.


William F. Buckley was born in New York City in 1925. He graduated with honors from Yale University and has taught and studied at Yale, the University of Mexico, and the New School for Social Research.


In 1955 Mr. Buckley founded the conservative journal National Review. In 1962 he began his syndicated column, On the Right. Today it appears three times a week in over 300 newspapers here an

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uckley Jr. has long been admired for his remarkable gifts as a writer, debater, and orator. The man who helped ignite the modern conservative movement has for the past fifty years played a significant role in the great social debates that have shaped our country and indeed the world. In the course of his long career, he has given hundreds of speeches to generations of listeners.





"A veritable treasure house. This book has long been awaited by those of us addicted to Buckley's profound, elegant, and witty commentary on the twentieth century."
Henry A. Kissinge






He has talked of many things from the Cold War to the passing of dear friends, from moral decay to the joys of sailing the open seas, from the defense of liberty to the comfort of faith. Here, collected for the first time, are Buckley's most memorable speeches, spanning five decades from the precocious Yale stud

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Verlag
Prima Lifestyles
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761525513
ISBN 13 
9780761525516
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
511
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