Buckley's Life on the Firing Line

When William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008, the United States lost more articulated champion of conservative ideas. On the course of a 60 -year race in Public Eye, Buckley did almost everything: books and published articles, conferences, wrote a column of newspaper, edited a national magazine, advised politicians and even applied for a position. He was fortunate to live enough to see the hopes he fed when he was a young man when, after a long and patient job, the conservatives captured the Republican party, they elected a conservative president and, most, promised the policies …