William F. Buckley, Jr.

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born November 24, 1925), an American author and journalist, founded National Review, a prominent conservative political magazine, in 1955, and the award-winning television show Firing Line in 1966. He often is credited as the godfather of modern American conservatism.

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; Books

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:* Contemporary Authors (Farmington Hills, Michigan, The Gale Group, 2003).

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:* Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers (Massachusetts, Merriam-Webster, 2001).

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:* Reid Buckley, Strictly Speaking (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1999) ISBN 0071346104.

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:* Brian Lamb, Booknotes: Stories from American History (New York, Penguin, 2001) ISBN 1586480839.

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:* W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency (New York, Facts on File, 2003) ISBN 0816046670.

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:* Tamara Straus (compiled and written for High Tide Press), The Literary Almanac: The Best of the Printed Word: 1900 to the Present (New York, High Tide Press, 1997) ISBN 1567313280.

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:* Mark Royden Winchell, William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1984) ISBN 0805774319.

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; Web sites

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:* {{Web reference| title=William F. Buckley, Jr.| URL=http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/resources/tr_buckley.asp| work=C-Span American Writers II| date=September 2| year=2004| }}

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:* Brimelow, Peter. {{Web reference| title=Buckley fesses up (finally): National Review has caved on immigration!| URL=http://www.vdare.com/pb/buckley.htm| work=VDARE.com| date=December 29| year=2004| }}

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