A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century By William F. Buckley Jr. Kindle Edition Nonfiction A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century The New York Times BestsellerWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen.In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley, Jr. achieved unique stature as a writer, a celebrity, and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He kept company with the best and brightest, the sultry and powerful. Ronald Reagan pronounced WFB “perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era,” and his jet setting life was a who’s who of high society, fame, and fortune. Among all his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and hosting the long running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was also a master of that most elusive art form: the eulogy. He drew on his unrivaled gifts to mourn, celebrate, or seek mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation. Now, for the first time, WFB’s sweeping judgments of the great figures of his time—presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar gods—are collected in one place. A Torch Kept Lit presents than fifty of Buckley’s best eulogies, drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelist’s touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them. We are reintroduced, through Buckley’s eyes, to the likes of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Truman Capote and Martin Luther King, Jr.Curated by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, a Buckley protégé and frequent contributor to National Review, this volumes heds light on a tumultuous period in American history—from World War II to Watergate, the “death” of God to the Grateful Dead—as told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists.William F. Buckley, Jr. is back—just when we need him most.

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How outstanding it would ve been to be one of William F Buckley s luminary friends and have him write an eloquent obituary for me although I d not have gotten to read it so perhaps not. A torch kept litas alive In any event I have long been a fan and admirer of WFB and this collection of obituaries and memorial tributes he penned for various friends acquaintances and even some adversaries is a thoroughly enjoyable read As with anything Buckley you ll find wit humor pointed comments and a healthy portion of warm even emotional remembrances This volume finely edited and previewed by James Rosen was like a guided tour through many avenues of 20th century history politics arts and culture led by a true renaissance man who was firmly ensconced in the middle of it all. Keep the torch lit One of my favorite quotes had to be WFB s observation of Ayn Rand of whom he clearly was not a disciple I had met Miss Rand three years before that review was published Her very first words to me I do not exaggerate were You ahrr too intelligent to believe in Gott The critic Wilfrid Sheed once remarked when I told him the story Well that certainly is an icebreaker It was and we conversed and did so for two or three years I used to send her postcards in liturgical Latin but levity with Miss Rand was not an effective weapon. Smith the little torch A great collection of great writing and insight by a master of his craft Highly recommended William F Buckley Jr A nice succinct education in an interesting period of our history Who knew you could learn from eulogies William F Buckley Jr Of late I have noticed much creeping or rather galloping nostalgia among National Review type conservatives Such nostalgia is doubtless a reaction to the current Trumpian trials of High Conservatism whose leading lights must feel much like the characters in Toy Story 3 holding hands as they are fed into a fiery furnace The Toy Story characters survive which probably distinguishes them from today s leaders of High Conservatism A Torch Kept Lit offers a triple dose of nostalgia William F Buckley eulogies of dead conservatives and others and a deep view of a dead time And like a papyrus scroll listing grain shipments on the Nile it is redolent of ancient history when High Conservatism mattered. A torch kept lit kindle version The blurb for A Torch Kept Lit promises that William F Buckley Jr is back just when we need him most This fantasy in a nutshell is what s wrong with today s High Conservatism Buckley is not back He will never be back He has joined the Church Triumphant But if he were back he would answer no need we have today He was a man for his time and not for our time His brand of urbane sophisticated conservatism predicated on mutual respect among adversaries on the existence of the rule of law on shared values on a belief that denying reality was disqualifying and on the desirability of reasoned discourse has no place where none of these things are true What we DO need now is less clear for no clear path forward or back exists and so to the dismay of Dr Seuss we inhabit the Waiting Place a most useless place Why Buckley would have no impact today can be encapsulated in one non political experience I read much of this book while waiting in line in a federal government office a customs office for an interview for the Global Entry traveler program Let s leave aside the arrogant peremptory manner of the federal employees who while working with modest efficiency made very clear who were the Rulers and who were the Ruled The waiting room was full and the wait was long CNN Headline News was playing We and all of America were eagerly informed about a a child who drove a car avoiding an accident b a man who took selfies after being attacked by a bear c a fiery truck crash where the cargo cookies were baked and many other such news stories liberally larded with offensively unintelligent advertisements That such tripe is demanded by consumers of news tells us why Buckley would like Dostoevsky s Christ not be welcomed back today. Nonfiction a torch kept literature Buckley himself early pointed out the trend in this direction In his thoughts on the death of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962 Buckley quoted James Burnham summarizing Mrs Roosevelt s long postwar career Over whatever subject plan or issue Mrs Roosevelt touches she spreads a squidlike ink of directionless feeling All distinctions are blurred all analysis fouled and in the murk clear thought is forever impossible Buckley concludes that her epitaph should read With all my heart and soul I fought the syllogism That s about right Nobody today values the syllogism Pretty much nobody even knows what a syllogism is And that s the problem for Buckley s entire life was built around the syllogism as this book shows. Acheter un livre sur kindle I don t mean my negativity to reflect on this excellent book After all there is nothing wrong with nostalgia if we do not allow ourselves to be lost in it And not infrequently we can find in the past facts or reasoning that can help us today Even if we find nothing directly useful we can be amused such as by Buckley s comment not in a eulogy but noted by the book s editor James Rosen about Lyndon Johnson It is widely known that whenever Senator Johnson feels the urge to act the statesman at the cost of little political capital he lies down until he gets over it Buckley s eulogies are full of such pithy phrases as well as sonorous ones. A torch kept litfleet Echoes or forebodings of today s travails can also be found in Buckley s eulogies For example in his eulogy of Ronald Reagan Buckley notes how reassuring it was for us to listen to the Leader of the Free World who to qualify convincingly as such had after all to feel a total commitment to the Free World One can only wonder what Buckley would make of Barack Obama a man who has only contempt for America and thinks its only value is to atone for its unique sins by abasing itself No wonder Obama reassures not at all and fails to qualify convincingly both as the leader of America and of the Free World he has no commitment to either. Smith the little torch None of these eulogies are hagiographies Most political figures in this book even allies come in for some criticism or at least an acknowledgement of their failings For example in 1965 Buckley knocked Winston Churchill It was Churchill who pledged a restored Europe indeed a restored world order after the great war He did not deliver us such a world Buckley blamed Churchill in part for a world in which people are slaves today than were slaves in the darkest hours of the Battle of Britain resulting in part from Churchill s behavior at the end of the war toward Stalin And Buckley ends his eulogy May he sleep peacefully than some of those who depended on him Tough stuff. Epub a torch kept lit summary The most poignant eulogies are of Buckley s friends such as the liberal Allard Lowenstein killed by a deranged acquaintance in 1980 His days foreshortened lived out the secular dissonances Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity Let Nature then fill this vacuum That is the challenge which bereft the friends of Allard Lowenstein hurl up to Nature and to Nature s God prayerfully demandingly because today Lord our loneliness is great Our loneliness is also great though for different reasons High Conservatism like Buckley is dead though presumably Buckley realizes it and National Review does not yet But despair as Buckley was fond of noting is a sin and a great one We cannot see what is next Like Theoden King we say to and ask ourselves The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow How did it come to this And like Theoden not knowing what the future holds our task must be therefore merely to gird ourselves for an uncertain and unknown battle such that we may be both ready for any challenge and able to strike in any direction William F Buckley Jr This book a collection of eulogies and obituaries written by William F Buckley Jr. Book a torch kept lit in the forest was enjoyable because of Buckley s writing style his wealth of anecdotes the fact that it touches on the lives of notable and sometimes obscure Americans and it reminds us of a time when people could disagree with each other and still have respect for a life well lived I should also say that just about the time you re ready to give up on this you get to the pieces about his adversaries when it gets really good He usually has something generous to say and if not it s usually pretty funny William F Buckley Jr It s a tough time to be a conservative intellectual in this country given the current right wing regime s Khmer Rouge like opposition to facts science and critical thinking I wonder what Buckley would make of the Republican party in 2017 This collection of all things a cross section of obituaries and eulogies gives us insight into the life and intellectual development of its author than his subjects What s interesting about Buckley is that he was utterly inflexible when it came to his core beliefs without the least hint of self doubt when it came to the unquestionable evil of Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular or the failure of the welfare state For an educated cosmopolitan man to hold such views with reflexive almost religious self assurance is highly interesting He also had no time for sentiment or respect for the dead He has absolutely no hangups about using the occasion of Eleanor Roosevelt s death as an opportunity to argue not without reason that she was in as many words a big dumb stupid But he also especially late in life was perfectly willing to make friends and write kindly about people from the other side of the political aisle assuming they met his rather arbitrary patrician social standards A fascinating man and clearly a relic The version of conservatism he championed died with him If anything this book made me nostalgic for a time when political operators at least maintained the appearance that they cared about being gentlemen William F Buckley Jr

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I like Bill Buckley s literary style and I especially like his appreciations written for friends family and public figures most of them after they passed He had the rare gift of making people sound as though you would want to know them too although to be fair Buckley really only wrote about those kinds of people This collection is a little odd there are some notable folks missing that I know he did cover I think I have every collection of his works ever issued but there are several nuggets that make the read worthwhile whatever your politics I was most taken with Rosalyn Tureck s tribute and the frenemy flavor of the loving piece he wrote about John Kenneth Galbraith Buckley loved wit even when it was used at his own expense The last letter between Galbraith and Buckley made me put the book down because I was laughing so hard. Pdf a torch kept lit summary Not a great read but an unfailingly entertaining one And at several points moving William F Buckley Jr I would say that WFB Jr was an unspeakable prig but he spoke and wrote quite eloquently So he was just a prig and a vindictive one His obituaries for family and friends were loving and inspiring But there was no eu in his eulogies for his nemeses To find fault in Eleanor Roosevelt for her altruism and in Ayn Rand for her lack of altruism is just a bit hypocritical And to blame the death of an intern on Jerry Garcia is completely hooey. A torch kept litc class I have often lamented his absence in the current world of illiterate conservatism but mostly because I laughed at him not with him William F Buckley Jr One of the enjoyable well written books I ve read in a long time I would recommend this book to all comers William F Buckley Jr Kurt Vonnegut called Buckley a man who has won the decathlon of human existence A patrician par excellence he rubbed shoulders with an unbelievable array of 20th century luminaries He was expert in the art of friendship He had a gift for the form of eulogy and a writing style is inimitable So the book was a very engaging read a wonderful history lesson in brief eminently consumable bites And evoking for me all the emotions and solemnity that a collection of eulogies should William F Buckley Jr A collection of obituaries written by Buckley not that interesting William F Buckley Jr The New York Times BestsellerWilliam F Buckley Jr remembers as only he could the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen. Smith the little torch In a half century on the national stage William F Buckley Jr achieved unique stature as a writer a celebrity and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism He kept company with the best and brightest the sultry and powerful Ronald Reagan pronounced WFB perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era and his jet setting life was a who s who of high society fame and fortune Among all his distinctions which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and hosting the long running talk show Firing Line Buckley was also a master of that most elusive art form the eulogy He drew on his unrivaled gifts to mourn celebrate or seek mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation Now for the first time WFB s sweeping judgments of the great figures of his time presidents and prime ministers celebrities and scoundrels intellectuals and guitar gods are collected in one place A Torch Kept Lit presents than fifty of Buckley s best eulogies drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelist s touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them We are reintroduced through Buckley s eyes to the likes of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan Elvis Presley and John Lennon Truman Capote and Martin Luther King Jr. Epub a torch kept lit summary Curated by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen a Buckley prot g and frequent contributor to National Review this volumes heds light on a tumultuous period in American history from World War II to Watergate the death of God to the Grateful Dead as told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists. Literature fiction a torch kept lit pdf William F Buckley Jr is back just when we need him most A Torch Kept Lit Great Lives of the Twentieth CenturyWilliam Frank Buckley Jr was an American author and conservative commentator He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955 hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999 and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist His writing style was famed for its erudition wit and use of uncommon words. A torch kept litfleet Buckley was arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century according to George H Nash a historian of the modern American conservative movement For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure Buckleys primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political William Frank Buckley Jr was an American author and conservative commentator He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955 hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999 and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist His writing style was famed for its erudition wit and use of uncommon words. A torch kept litc class Buckley was arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century according to George H Nash a historian of the modern American conservative movement For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure Buckley s primary intellectual achievement was to fuse traditional American political conservatism with economic libertarianism and anti communism laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of US Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and US President Ronald Reagan. Politics a torch kept lit in the dark Buckley came on the public scene with his critical book God and Man at Yale 1951 among over fifty further books on writing speaking history politics and sailing were a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes Buckley referred to himself on and off as either libertarian or conservative He resided in New York City and Stamford Connecticut and often signed his name as WFB He was a practicing Catholic regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut site_link.