Right Reason; A Collection Sepected by Richard Brookhiser

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1885. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxiii, [3], 454 pages. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Pencil erasure residue on fep. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded National Review magazine in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement; hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line (1966–1999), where he became known for his transatlantic accent and wide vocabulary; and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, said Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century… For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan, both Republicans. Former Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said "Buckley lighted the fire". Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than fifty other books on writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing, including a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. Selected by Brookhiser, a National Review editor, these 100 pieces include political commentary, an essay about the public's reaction to Buckley's autobiographical book Overdrive and a eulogy for Buckley's mother. ""Buckley at his brilliant, biting best.''. Condition: Very good / Good.

Keywords: Aloise Steiner Buckley, Balanced Budget, Whittaker Chambers, Robert Dole, Daniel Patrick Monyihan, Human Rights, Jesse Jackson, Joseph McCarthy, Walter Mondale, National Review, Terrorism, Nuclear War, United Nations, Vickie Zielinski

ISBN: 0385152353

[Book #73189]

Price: $40.00