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Strictly Right : William F. Buckley Jr. and the American conservative movement
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Strictly Right : William F. Buckley Jr. and the American conservative movement

Author: Linda Bridges; John R Coyne
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Would there be an American conservative movement without William F. Buckley, Jr.? Perhaps. Would it be the robust, broad-based, politically dominant force that it is today? Almost certainly not. When he launched National Review in 1955, Buckley forged a powerful alliance among libertarians, traditionalists, anti-Communists, and other fractious factions of the right, focusing their attention on a single objective: to  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: William F Buckley; William F Buckley
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Linda Bridges; John R Coyne
ISBN: 9780471758174 0471758175
OCLC Number: 71275596
Description: ix, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Life before National Review --
Forging the conservative movement --
Goldwater for president --
The raging sixties --
The long detour --
New directions --
Time to regroup --
The Reagan years --
New world order --
Passing the torch.
Responsibility: Linda Bridges and John R. Coyne Jr.
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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  Read more...

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