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Best of Enemies is a 2015 American documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the televised debates between intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. during the 1968 United States presidential election. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired by Magnolia and Participant Media. [4]
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; [a] November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator. [ 1 ] Born in New York City, Buckley spoke Spanish as his first language before learning French and then English as a child. [ 2 ]
Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley Jr. 1954–1961. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1969. ISBN 9780895267887. The Governor Listeth. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1970. ISBN 9780425020241. Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century.
William F. Buckley Jr. Although throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Buckley opposed federal civil rights legislation and expressed support for continued racial segregation in the South, in the years preceding the debate, and potentially as a result of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing , Buckley had grown more accommodating of the Civil ...
"They were all connected in some way to William F. Buckley, Jr." Walsh views Buckley, the "respectable" founder of National Review, as an arms-length partner of the aforementioned "crackpots" in ...
Buckley went on to be an active force in the conservative movement through the political magazine he started, National Review, and his television show Firing Line. The magazine and its creator played a crucial role in tying together the different factions of the arising conservative movement to form a potent political force.
Buckley was the fourth of 10 children of a millionaire oilman and older brother of conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., who died in February 2008. He was the last survivor of the 10 ...
Books by William F. Buckley Jr. (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "William F. Buckley Jr." The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.