Founder of national review, conservative Bill Buckley icon tribute on new stamps of US postal services
The US Postal Service presented a new postage stamp on Thursday with a conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr.Founder of the conservative editorial magazine National Review.
Buckley, a leading voice for a modern conservative movement, Founded national review In 1955, publishing conservative comments and analysis of focused on politics, current events and culture. The magazine still exists and publishes 12 magazines a year, except for its daily news.
The seal contains graphite and coal portrait of Buckley, who drew Dale Stephanos, according to the US Postal Service.
Historian George Nash described Buckley as “probably the most important public intellectuals in the United States in the last half centuries” 2008 after Buckley’s death.
“For the whole generation, it was a superior voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical character,” Nash wrote to National Review.
The magazine cooperated several ideological branches and provided an exit for attitudes, including the capitalism of the free market, libertarianism, traditionalism and anti -communism, under the Law on Law on Rights.
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William F. Buckley, Jr., founded a national review of a conservative commentary in 1955. (Getty)
In addition to the national leadership review, Buckley also hosted the television program “Shoting” from 1966 to 1999, which became known for its ideological diversity of guests in the range Former President Ronald ReaganFormer British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, economist Friedrich Hayek, scientist Noam Chomsky and Liberal author above Vidal.
“The success and the long -lasting line of shooting have proven that there is a place on television for civilized debate between conflicting ideologies that could entertain and inform the US public,” the Stanford University Institute of Hoover said.
Think Public Policy Tank, led by former Condoleez Rice Secretary Secretary, contains a huge collection of “Fire line” video charts of more than 1500 episodes, except for programs, photographs, transcripts and sound shots.
Buckley, a pious Catholic, is also the author of a dozen books, including “God and man on Yale: superstition” Academic Freedom “, published in 1951, about her experience of attending the University of Yale. The book offered a sharp assessment of the secular academic climate of Yale, and the magazine cited Time in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most of the top” 1923.
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William F. Buckley Jr. He hosted a television program “Shoting line” for over 30 years. (Getty)
New York Times columnist, David Brooks, who started his career as a trainee with National Review, wrote after Buckley’s death in 2008 that Buckley’s “greatest talent was a friendship” and that the conservative icon was a passionate writer of letters.
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“His second big talent was the lead,” Brooks wrote in the New York Times. “As a young man, he caught a famous disputed band elder who compiled a national review editorial.
“He loved freedom and thought he had to limit him with the invisible connections of the transcendent order,” Brooks wrote.
