William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American author and conservative 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. Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century," according to George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement. "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political conservatism with economic libertarianism and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of US Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and US President Ronald Reagan. Buckley came on the public scene with his critical book God and Man at Yale (1951); among over fifty further books on writing, speaking, history, politics and sailing, were a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself "on and off" as either libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, and often signed his name as "WFB." He was a practicing Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut.
Series
Books
Miles Gone By
A Literary Autobiography
2004
A Very Private Plot
1993
Gratitude
1990
Atlantic High
1982
On the Firing Line
1989
Marco Polo, If You Can
1981
Buckley vs. Vidal
The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates
2015
Inveighing We Will Go
1972
Who's on First
1980
The Right Word
1996
High Jinx
1986
The Unmaking of a Mayor
1966
Elvis in the Morning
2001
Tucker's Last Stand
1990
Happy Days Were Here Again
Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist
1993
Saving the Queen
1976
Nearer, My God
An Autobiography of Faith
1997
Keeping the Tablets
Modern American Conservative Thought
1988
MONGOOSE, R.I.P.
1987
In Search of Anti-Semitism
1992
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription
Notes and Asides from National Review
2007
The Redhunter
A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy
2006
A Torch Kept Lit
Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
2016
Overdrive
A Personal Documentary
1983
Last Call for Blackford Oakes
2005
Flying High
Remembering Barry Goldwater
2008
Brothers No More
1995
God and Man at Yale
The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
1951
Airborne
1970
The Story of Henri Tod
1983
Spytime
The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton
2000
Up From Liberalism
1959
The Temptation of Wilfred Malachy
1981
Quotations From Chairman Bill
1970
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century
1970
The Governor Listeth;
1970
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
2004
WindFall
The End of the Affair
1982
Racing Through Paradise
A Pacific Passage
1987
Nuremberg
The Reckoning
2002
Getting It Right
2003
The Rake
2007
Let Us Talk of Many Things
The Collected Speeches
2000
Right Reason
1985
The Jeweler's Eye.
1958
The Lexicon
A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover
1998
The Reagan I Knew
2008
McCarthy and His Enemies
The Record and Its Meaning
1954
