William F. Buckley Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William F. Buckley Jr.

American conservative author and commentator

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1925

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 27-Feb-2008

Profession: writer, politician, television presenter, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

William Frank Buckley Jr.
(born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator.
In 1955 Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the late-20th century United States.
Buckley hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line (1966–1999), the longest-running public affairs show in US television history with a single host, where he became known for his distinctive idiolect and wide vocabulary.Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than fifty other books on diverse topics, including writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing.
His works include a series of novels featuring fictitious CIA agent Blackford Oakes.
He also penned a nationally syndicated newspaper column.Buckley called himself either a libertarian or a conservative.
George H.
Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, said in 2008 that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century.
For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditionalist conservatism and classical liberalism; it laid the groundwork for the rightward shift in the Republican Party exemplified by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.