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Let us talk of many things :

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0761525513

(Number (ISBN

9780761525516

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Let us talk of many things :

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[Book]

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the collected speeches /

First Statement of Responsibility

William F. Buckley, Jr

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xxxii, 511 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm

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Includes index

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The fifties : Today we are educated men: an address to fellow graduates ; The Trojan Horse of American education?: a defense of private schools ; The artist as aggressor: on congressional investigations ; Only five thousand communists?: welcoming the House Committee on Un-American Activities to town ; Should liberalism be repudiated?: debating James Wechsler -- The sixties : In the end, we will bury him: protesting Khrushchev's visit ; Scholar, fighter, westerner: introducing Jacques Soustelle ; The lonely professor: saluting O. Glenn Saxon ; An island of hope: defending Taiwan's independence ; Norman Mailer and the American right: a debate ; What could we learn from a Communist?: an appeal to the Yale Political Union ; Who did get us into this mess?: debating Murray Kempton ; The impending defeat of Barry Goldwater: off the record, to the Young Americans for Freedom ; A growing spirit of resistance: to the New York Conservative Party ; The free society--what's that?: applauding Henry Hazlitt ; Buckley versus Buckley: a self-interview, on running for mayor of New York ; The heat of Mr. Truman's kitchen: celebrating National Review's tenth anniversary ; On selling books to booksellers: addressing the American Booksellers Association ; The aimlessness of American education: in defense of small colleges -- "You have seen too much in China": to a concerned organization ; The duty of the educated Catholic: to a high-school honors society ; Did you kill Martin Luther King?: to the American Society of Newspaper Editors ; Life with a meticulous colleague: saluting William A. Rusher ; On the perspective of the eighteen-year-old: to graduating high-school students ; Words to the counterrevolutionary young: addressing the Young Americans for Freedom

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The nineties : Dismantling the evil empire: on the end of the Soviet Union ; The Simon persona: a tribute to a critic ; A distinctive gentility: recollections of Yale ; Time to go to bed: a valedictory ; Taxation and the rule of law: analyzing Reaganomics ; Can Eastern Europe be saved?: to the Philadelphia Society ; Singularly humane: introducing Aileen Mehle ; "If he gives the blessing" ; We won. What now?: at the end of the Cold War ; The politics of the common man: on modern political manners ; "Better redwoods than deadwoods": encountering Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ; The architectural splendor of Barry Goldwater: a tribute ; From Wm to Wm: remembering William F. Rickenbacker ; O.J. Simpson and other ills: analyzing current concerns ; The drug war is not working: to the New York City Bar Association ; Let us now praise famous men: to the twelfth International Churchill Conference ; The underperformance of the press: the Theodore H. White Memorial Lecture ; The mother hen of modern conservatism: introducing Lady Thatcher ; Who cares if Homer nodded?: to the graduating class ; How to work, how to read, how to love: remembering Richard Clurman ; A serene gravity: acknowledging Walter Chronkite ; The special responsibility of conservatives: to the International Conservative Congress ; The personal grace of J.K. Galbraith: a birthday tribute ; A man who looks the beggar in the face: saluting William F. Simon ; Forgiving the unforgivable: on President Clinton's problem ; The animating indiscretions of Ronald Reagan: a birthday tribute ; Preserving the heritage: on the Heritage Foundation's twenty-fifth anniversary

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The seventies : On the well-tempered spirit: a commencement address ; Resolutely on the side of Yale's survival: at a twentieth reunion ; The Republic's duty to repress: to a conference of judges ; "That man I trust": appreciating James L. Buckley ; The world that Lenin shaped: on visiting Brezhnev's Soviet Union ; John Kerry's America: to the cadets of West Point ; The West Berlin of China: upon Taiwan's expulsion from the United Nations ; Affection, guidance, and peanut brittle: a special toast ; On preserving the tokens of hope and truth: saluting Henry Regnery ; Without Marx or Jesus?: to the American Society of Newspaper Editors ; The "leftwardmost viable candidate": debating John Kenneth Galbraith ; The terrible sadness of Spiro Agnew: to the New York Conservative Party ; The high cost of Mr. Nixon's deceptions: to the New York Conservative Party ; On serving in the United Nations: testimony to the Senate committee ; No dogs in China: at the National War College ; The courage of Friedrich Hayek: addressing the Mont Pelerin Society ; The protracted struggle against cancer: to the American Cancer Society ; A salutary impatience: a commencement address ; Cold water on the spirit of liberty: replying to President Carter ; The reckless generosity of John Chamberlain: a tribute ; A party for Henry Kissinger: a birthday toast ; What Americanism seeks to be: to the Young Republicans -- The eighties : His rhythms were not of this world: remembering Allard Lowenstein ; The Rudolph Valentino of the marketplace: Saluting Milton Friedman ; The greatness of James Burnham: to a friend and mentor ; Halfway between servility and hostility: at a historic college ; Earl Warren and the meaning of the Constitution: addressing a class of future lawyers ; Sing a song of praise to failure: at a graduate business school ; How Leo Cherne spent Christmas: an introduction ; 10 Downing Street: The Girls Club of Britain: a transatlantic salute ; Moral distinctions and modern warfare: parsing nuclear war ; Democracy and the pursuit of happiness: a commencement address ; The genesis of Blackford Oakes: on the distinctively American male ; Waltzing at West 44th Street: an ode to the America's Cup ; The blood of our fathers ran strong: celebrating National Review's thirtieth anniversary -- The distinguished Mr. Buckley: introducing a best-selling novelist ; On her way to the cross: remembering Clare Boothe Luce ; Out of oppression, a political poet: Introducing Vladimir Bukovsky ; The massive eminence of Dr. Sakharov: a salute ; Towards a recovery of gratitude: to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute ; A hero of the Reagan revolution: applauding Jack Kemp ; The pagan love song of Murray Kempton: an appreciation

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Presents a collection of Buckley's most memorable speeches over the past fifty years

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

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Buckley, William F.,Jr.,1925-2008.

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20190612125625.0

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