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WASHINGTON – William F. Buckley Jr., a Catholic with an extraordinary gift for the spoken and written word who was dubbed the godfather of modern American conservatism, died Feb. 27 at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was
The commentator suffered from diabetes and emphysema, but the exact cause of death was not known. Buckley was found dead at the desk in his study where he reportedly had been writing.
“He died with his boots on, after a lifetime of riding pretty tall in the saddle,” his son, Christopher, was quoted as saying.
Funeral arrangements had not been announced as of Feb.
Buckley may have been best known for his work with the National Review, a conservative political magazine he founded in and where he served as editor until He also wrote more than 50 books as diverse as spy novels and a book on sailing. He wrote an account of his Catholic beliefs in the book “Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith.”
He also was a television host for more than 30 years for the PBS program “Firing Line.”
Buckley was born in New York in , the sixth of 10 children. His father, who made his multimillion-dollar fortune in oil, had his children educated by personal tutors at the Buckley family estate in Sharon, Conn., and Catholic schools in England and France.
Buckley served in t
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century, by William F. Buckley, Jr. and James Rosen, editor (Crown Forum, pp., $22)
When asked about attending services for a deceased friend, baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra retorted that, “If you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t come to yours.” That same spirit may have animated William F. Buckley, Jr.’s journalistic commitment to memorializing the lives of notable public figures—some friends, some strangers—when they died. Buckley wrote as though his subjects might actually be in attendance at his funeral mass, at least in spirit, in Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, eight years ago.
In A Torch Kept Lit, 53 of Buckley’s most notable obituaries and eulogies are compiled between two covers. Nearly all of the entries are devoted to individuals who “mattered” and who changed the course of the twentieth century. Edited by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, A Torch Kept Lit teaches us not only how the master “obituarist” pays tribute to an individual of note; it also offers wonderful insights into the great struggles of the twentieth century by focusing on the lives of Winston Churchill, Alger
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&#;Merciful towards depiction absurd&#;: Recollection William F. Buckley Jr.
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Photo courtesy capacity the Novel York Times.
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