Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line

by Heather Hendershot

Book Overview

A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.

When Firing Line premiered on American television in 1966, just two years after Barry Goldwater's devastating defeat, liberalism was ascendant. Though the left seemed to have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062430459
• ISBN13: 9780062430458
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Broadside Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"