MORE REMINISCENCES OF WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR

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Another post on William F. Buckley may seem tedious to some, but I regard Buckley as one of the giants of the 20th century.  TodayI began to dip into his first book, God & Man at Yale, a book I have
had on my shelf but never got around to reading until now.  I find it fascinating.  So far as I can tell, little has changed since he wrote it back in 1951 as a 25 year-old Yale graduate.  As I wrote before, for years I greatly appreciated his television program, Firing Line.  What follows are more reminiscences (mainly from the National Review website) to add to a previous post.

David Brooks - Remembering the Mentor

George Will - A Life Athwart History

George Will - He Won the Cold War (A Dialog with Buckley)

Peggy Noonan  - May We Not Lose His Kind

Jonah Goldberg - Prince of Polysyllabism

Mark A. Thiessen - The Day I Met WFB (quite interesting - unmuddle)

 

William McGurn - God and Man and Bill

Rich Lowry - Gratitude

Mark Hemingway - Where There's a Will, There's Bill Buckley

John O'Sullivan - As Long as He Was Alive the Liberals could Not Win

Larry Perelman -The Last Supper with WFB

Michael Beran Knox - The Sacred Elixir of Life

Hillsdale College - Read Everything Buckley (collection of Writings)

NRO Symposium - A Guide to Reading WFB (Where Does One Star

National Review Archive of Articles - probably making the above unnecessary!

NRO Reader Tributes

Bill Steigerwald - interview with Bill Buckley by phone Nov. 2007

         Update: 3/1/08:

From a Corner post:

The Weekly Standard pays tribute to WFB this week, beginning with a tribute from Bill Kristol:

Andy Ferguson tells a familiar tale — "I came to him when I was still a teenager, through television" — characteristically eloquently.

Christopher Hitchens captures a snapshot of what could have been just about any day:

The late William F. Buckley Jr. was a man of incessant labor and productivity, with a slight allowance made for that saving capacity for making it appear easy. But he was driven, all right, and restless, and never allowed himself much ease on his own account. There was never a moment, after taping some session at Firing Line, where mere recourse to some local joint was in prospect. He was always just about to be late for the next plane, or column, or speech, or debate.

 

But it wasn't just the next speech; Terry Eastland writes: "I think Bill's days somehow went longer than 24 hours. They had to, to accommodate his innumerable friendships."

Lest we forget, Joseph Bottum reminds us God and Man at Yale began with God.

- NRO reader's forum on WFB

- 3/3/08 - Jay Nordlinger - (This is really good and not to be missed)

- 3/8/08 - Dick Cavett - "A Most Uncommon Man"  - fascinating!