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Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations
Buckley, William F., Jr.. Ed(S): Bridges, Linda; Kimball, Roger
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bridges, Linda; Kimball, Roger. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 757.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594036088
SKU
V9781594036088
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About Buckley, William F., Jr.. Ed(S): Bridges, Linda; Kimball, Roger
William F. Buckley Jr.: "William F. Buckley Jr. is the author of fifty previous works of fiction and nonfiction. The founder and former editor-in-chief of National Review and former host of "Firing Line," he has been one of the intellectual leaders of the right since the 1950s. His syndicated column, "On the Right," began in 1962 and appears in newspapers ... Read more
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