First published 2016
William F. Buckley Jr. built a legendary career as a writer, celebrity, and architect of modern American conservatism. He founded National Review magazine and hosted the talk show Firing Line. Throughout his half century on the national stage, he kept company with presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and intellectuals. Reagan called him "perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era." Among his many talents, Buckley mastered the art of the eulogy. He drew on his unmatched gifts to honor the men and women who shaped his life and the nation. This collection presents more than fifty of his finest eulogies. Buckley conjures his subjects through personal memories and private letters, using a novelist's skill to bring them to life. Readers encounter Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Truman Capote and Martin Luther King Jr. Fox News correspondent James Rosen compiled these pieces, which illuminate a turbulent era from World War II to Watergate. The book captures Buckley's elegant literary voice as he celebrates the great figures of his time.
Genres: history, essays, 20th-century, american, politics, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: historical-figures
Period: World War II, Watergate
336 pages · Hardcover · Forum Books