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The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembersas only he couldthe 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 go The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembersas only he couldthe 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 whos 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, WFBs sweeping judgments of the great figures of his timepresidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar godsare collected in one place. A Torch Kept Lit presents more than fifty of Buckleys best eulogies, drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelists touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them. We are reintroduced, through Buckleys 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 protege and frequent contributor to National Review , this volumes sheds light on a tumultuous period in American historyfrom World War II to Watergate, the death of God to the Grateful Deadas told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists.William F. Buckley, Jr. is backjust when we need him most.