Open to debate : how William F. Buckley put liberal America on the Firing Line
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- Open to debate : how William F. Buckley put liberal America on the Firing Line
- Title remainder
- how William F. Buckley put liberal America on the Firing Line
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- Heather Hendershot
- Subject
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- Buckley, William F., Jr, 1925-2008
- Buckley, William F., Jr, 1925-2008 -- Political and social views
- Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Firing line (Television program) -- History
- History
- Journalists -- United States -- Biography
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | General
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Television personalities -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies | Conservatism & Liberalism
- Biography
- Language
- eng
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- "A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era. When Firing Line premiered on American television in 1966, just two years after Barry Goldwater's devastating defeat, liberalism was ascendant. Though the left seemed to have decisively won the hearts and minds of the electorate, the show's creator and host, William F. Buckley--relishing his role as a public contrarian--made the case for conservative ideas, believing that his side would ultimately win because its arguments were better. As the founder of the right's flagship journal, National Review, Buckley spoke to likeminded readers. With Firing Line, he reached beyond conservative enclaves, engaging millions of Americans across the political spectrum. Each week on Firing Line, Buckley and his guests--the cream of America's intellectual class, such as Tom Wolfe, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Henry Kissinger, and Milton Friedman--debated the urgent issues of the day, bringing politics, culture, and economics into American living rooms as never before. Buckley himself was an exemplary host; he never appealed to emotion and prejudice; he engaged his guests with a unique and entertaining combination of principle, wit, fact, a truly fearsome vocabulary, and genuine affection for his adversaries. Drawing on archival material, interviews, and transcripts, Open to Debate provides a richly detailed portrait of this widely respected ideological warrior, showing him in action as never before. Much more than just the story of a television show, Hendershot's book provides a history of American public intellectual life from the 1960s through the 1980s--one of the most contentious eras in our history--and shows how Buckley led the way in drawing America to conservatism during those years"--
- "Few conservatives are as revered and admired as William F. Buckley. Buckley is best known for founding National Review, the flagship journal of the right. But his long-running talk show Firing Line was equally important, because it allowed him to reach beyond the conservative enclave and engage millions of mainstream Americans. When Firing Line premiered in 1966, only two years after Barry Goldwater's blow-out defeat in the 1964 presidential election, it seemed as if liberalism had decisively won. Buckley's liberal guests clearly thought so. Yet he gamely and serenely soldiered on in his role as a public contrarian, making the case for conservative ideas and assuming that his side would ultimately win because its arguments were better. In time he was proven correct. Buckley's show--challenging, exciting, and always unpredictable--engaged the most urgent issues of the day and paraded the cream of America's intellectual class across the screen. The guest list reads like a who's who of midcentury American liberalism-David Susskind, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, along with major conservative figures like Henry Kissinger and Milton Friedman. It was also responsible for inspiring several generations of conservatives"--
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- individual biography
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- 070.92
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- no index present
- LC call number
- PN4874.B796
- LC item number
- H46 2016eb
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- non fiction
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