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Classical in form, grave, cool and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- William F. Buckley
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Penguin, S. French, Doubleday
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781888952292
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“AT FIRST, THEY were saying about him, Oh my God, it's Hitler all over again!”
William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that 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 change to politi
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