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American editor, writer, and conservative political thinker, who gained a reputation as the most articulate spokesperson for conservatism in the United States was born on November 24, 1925, New York City, New York, United States. He won national attention with the publication of God and Man at Yale (1951). In it he argued that Yale had betrayed its God-oriented, free-enterprise alumni by “persuading the sons of these supporters to be atheistic socialists.” The core of its argument was that Yale had hired too many faculties who were antagonistic to or skeptical of Christianity. The book stirred a storm of outrage and defensiveness at his alma mater and established Buckley's reputation as a ruthless though also erudite polemicist. Following publication of God and Man at Yale, Buckley briefly joined the Central Intelligence Agency but left after a year to work for American Mercury magazine. He soon entered the fray over the anti-Communist investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Buckley defended the senator in a 1954 book he coauthored titled McCarthy and His Enemies. Buckley's other books include Up from Liberalism (1959), Quotations from Chairman Bill (1970), On the Firing Line (1989), The Culture of Liberty (1993), and Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography (2004). An avid sailor, he chronicled his adventures at sea in Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage (1987) and Windfall: The End of the Affair (1992), an account of his attempt to repeat Christopher Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Buckley has also written novels, such as Brothers No More (1995) and Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000), and a series of best-selling espionage thrillers. Among the thrillers, featuring secret agent Bradford Oakes, are Saving the Queen (1976), Marco Polo, If You Can (1981), Mongoose R.I.P. (1987), and Last Call for Bradford Oakes (2005).
He died on February 27, 2008, in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
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