afraid goldwater would be associate with national review of bill buckley. at kind of political energy also expressed itself in his early friendship with ronald reagan. even got to the point later in his life he is willing to intervene buckley in democrat primaries in support democrat candidates order to get rid of the original. i came to age at the tail end of this. grew up reading the pages. i had a conservative econ prof who gave me his issue of national review. i did not know what it was is in the late '80s and college pretty said i think you should take this. i'll just give you my copy when i'm done with it. and then i just consumed it and really took to national dealings. if you are a young budding conservative in the 80s, early 90s this is the path you took. this is the movement you came into. we have different movements like this in different times when people are coming of age the conservative movement. i think buckley of all people pretty much dominated it for premature three decades. and nevertheless still had a bunch of people, there is a big figh

this is the version of american conservatism that bill buckley created. the last part of his legacy was political. working within the republican party the traditional vehicle of american conservatism can turn it away from the moderate republican idealism. and toward conservatism. so he played a big role in the draft of the goldwater campaign that culminated in 1964 in barry goldwater's nomination for president on the republican ticket. ironically the goldwater campaign managed by one of the most prominent presence of this institution locked buckley out of the campaign. he was afraid goldwater would be associated with the a national review but that kind of political energy expressed itself in his early friendship with ronald reagan and even got to the point later in his life where he intervened, buckley that isma in democratic primaris or support democratic candidates including joe lieberman for senate in order to get rid of the original me to earth. >> i came of age at this time and i studied it in congress -- and college and grew up with friedman and i h

and it's the question i want to begin as a communist to ask my friend, bill buckley. how do you come up with things to write about? says, the world irritates me three times a week. but i'd say the world irritates me, amuses me, peaks my curiosity. the world is just littered with things to write about. it was of napoleon that he couldn't look at landscape without seeing a battlefield. if you are columnist, -- you can't look at the world without seeing column topics. they just come at u. >> visit book tv dot org to watch the rest of this program, where you can find it and all previous episodes of our weekly author interview program by clicking on the afterwards tap in the top of the page. >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> welcome to the library. my name is vivian fisher, and i'm deputy chief of the pratt state library resource center here at the central library. this evening, i'm pleased to introduce our guests often, ca

he now has access to telephone, telegraph, buckley bills $1400 rated that was really excessive at that time. he had in total tutor 50 correspondence that he was communicating with to provide the coverage. he would send out telegrams and calling them at 4:00 a.m. and continue to send copies overseas to american forces over in europe in world war i and the american league he convinced them to buy 150,000 subscriptions for the chiefs overseas. and before the war, they only had 75000 subscriptions so this is a huge increase. so credit tapped into now, the war effort and by way of support our soldiers so they can keep check of baseball than just kind of shows you the connections between baseball and american identity. well, his impact on baseball and i'll say more about the all-star game in a little bit but i wanted huge collaborate the first all-star game in 1933, and that was the chicago tribune to hold the fans from the beginning the all-star games was entwined with journalism and they were the ones with fans at the starting lineup. it is also additionally one of those who rejected my ba

he now has access to telephone, telegraph, buckley bills $1400 rated that was really excessive at that time. he had in total tutor 50 correspondence that he was communicating with to provide the coverage. he would send out telegrams and calling them at 4:00 a.m. and continue to send copies overseas to american forces over in europe in world war i and the american league he convinced them to buy 150,000 subscriptions for the chiefs overseas. and before the war, they only had 75000 subscriptions so this is a huge increase. so credit tapped into now, the war effort and by way of support our soldiers so they can keep check of baseball than just kind of shows you the connections between baseball and american identity. well, his impact on baseball and i'll say more about the all-star game in a little bit but i wanted huge collaborate the first all-star game in 1933, and that was the chicago tribune to hold the fans from the beginning the all-star games was entwined with journalism and they were the ones with fans at the starting lineup. it is also additionally one of those who rejected my ba

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