An edition of A torch kept lit (2016)

A torch kept lit

great lives of the twentieth century

First edition.

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An edition of A torch kept lit (2016)

A torch kept lit

great lives of the twentieth century

First edition.

"A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen. In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique stature as a polemicist and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He knew everybody, hosted everybody at his East 73rd Street maisonette, skewered everybody who needed skewering, and in general lived life on a scale, and in a swashbuckling manner, that captivated and inspired countless young conservatives across that half-century. Among all of his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and serving as host on the long running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was a master of that most elusive of art forms: the eulogy. Buckley drew on his unrivaled gifts in what he liked to call 'the controversial arts' to mourn, celebrate, or seek eternal mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation; to conjure their personalities, recall memorable moments, herald their greatness; or to remind readers of why a given individual, even with the grace that death can uniquely confer, should be remembered as evil. At all points, these remembrances reflect Buckley's singular voice, with its elegant touch and mordant humor, and lend to the lives of the departed a final tribute consistent with their own careers, lives, and accomplishments. Of the more than 200 eulogies located in Buckley's vast archive of published works, A Torch Kept Lit collects the very best, those remembering the most consequential lives (Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan), the most famous to today's readers (Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Jacqueline Onassis, Princess Diana), those who loomed largest in the conservative movement (Milton Friedman, Russell Kirk), the most accomplished in the literary world (Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William Shawn), the most mysterious (Soviet spy Alger Hiss, CIA spymaster Richard Helms), and those most dear to WFB (his wife and parents)"--

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Table of Contents

Presidents
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Family
Patricia Taylor Buckley
William F. Buckley, Sr.
Aloise Steiner Buckley
L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
Arts and Letters
Truman Capote
Johnny Carson
Alistair Cooke
Milton Friedman
Jerry Garcia
Vladimir Horowitz
Russell Kirk
John Lennon
Norman Mailer
Vladimir Nabokov
Elvis Presley
A. M. Rosenthal
William Shawn
Rosalyn Tureck
Generals, Spies, and Statesmen
Winston Churchill
William Colby
Princess Diana
Allen Dulles
Barry Goldwater
Richard Helms
E. Howard Hunt
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Golda Meir
John Mitchell
Jacqueline Onassis
Vernon Walters
Friends
Whittaker Chambers
Richard Clurman
Evan Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
Tom Hume
Nan Kempner
Hugh Kenner
Allard Lowenstein
David Niven
Warren Steibel
Charles Wallen
Nemeses
Alger Hiss
John V. Lindsay
Ayn Rand
Nelson Rockefeller
Eleanor Roosevelt
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.91
Library of Congress
E747 .B95 2016, E747.B95 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
323 pages
Number of pages
323

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Open Library
OL26882075M
Internet Archive
torchkeptlitgrea0000buck
ISBN 10
1101906219
ISBN 13
9781101906217
LCCN
2016017488
OCLC/WorldCat
934676635

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