William F. Buckley Jr. William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr‪.‬

The Maker of a Movement

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The modern-day Renaissance man who forged the conservative movement

Noted conservative historian Lee Edwards, who knew William F. Buckley Jr. for more than forty years, delivers a much-needed intellectual biography of the man has been called “arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century.” In this concise and compelling book, Edwards reveals how Buckley did more than any other person to build the conservative movement. Once derided as a set of “irritable mental gestures,” conservatism became, under Buckley’s guidance, a political and intellectual force that transformed America.

As conservatives debate the ideas that should drive their movement, William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement reminds us of the principles that animated Buckley, as well as the thinkers who inspired him. The four most important intellectual influences on this great molder of American conservatism, Edwards shows, were libertarian author and social critic Albert Jay Nock, conservative political scientist Willmoore Kendall, former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, and realpolitik apostle James Burnham. Having dug deep into the voluminous Buckley papers, Edwards also illuminates the profound influence of Buckley’s close-knit family and his unwavering Catholic faith.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2014
April 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD)
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
808.4
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