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Feb 27, 2017 · Nine years after Bill Buckley’s death, reflecting on his Catholic life. W illiam F. Buckley Jr. died nine years ago today. When I announced his death on the website, a stream of e-mails...
May 18, 2009 · Buckley, an icon of the modern conservative movement, died last year at 82 from a heart attack. It’s amazing that he lasted as long as he did. Buckley died just 10 months after his wife...
- Lev Grossman
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; [a] November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator. [1] Born in New York City, Buckley spoke Spanish as his first language before learning French and then English as a child. [2]
Writer and commentator William F. Buckley, a revered figure and intellectual force in the American conservative movement for decades, died on Wednesday at age 82, said the magazine he founded, the National Review.
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 82. The commentator suffered from diabetes and emphysema, but the exact cause of death was not known.
Feb 27, 2008 · William F. Buckley Jr., the columnist, novelist, talk show host and tireless intellectual who founded the modern conservative movement and was its articulate voice for nearly six decades,...
Mar 19, 2024 · Buckley dies of complications from emphysema in his Stamford, Connecticut home on February 27. At the time of his death, he was working in his home office on another book about his conservative...
