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A unique and compelling family portrait of William F. Buckley as the champ of traditional ideas in an age of liberal dominance. When Firing Range premiered on American television set in 1966, just 2 yrs after Barry Goldwater's damaging defeat, liberalism was ascendant. Though the Left seemed to have decisively won the hearts and thoughts of the electorate, the show's inventor and sponsor, William F. Buckley - relishing his role as a public contrarian - made the truth for traditional ideas, believing that his area would ultimately get because its quarrels were better. As the creator of the Right's flagship journal, National Review, Buckley spoke to like-minded viewers. With Firing Range, he reached beyond traditional enclaves, engaging an incredible number of Americans across the political spectrum. Each week on Firing Range, Buckley and his guests - the cream of America's intellectual category, such as Tom Wolfe, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Henry Kissinger, and Milton Friedman - debated the urgent issues of the day, bringing politics, culture, and economics into American living spaces as nothing you've seen prior. Buckley himself was an exemplary sponsor; he never appealed to emotion and prejudice; he engaged his guests with a distinctive and entertaining combination of process, wit, fact, a truly fearsome vocabulary, and genuine affection for his adversaries. Pulling on archival materials, interviews, and transcripts, Open to Controversy provides a richly detailed family portrait of this greatly respectable ideological warrior, displaying him doing his thing as nothing you've seen prior. Much more than just the story of an television set show, Hendershot's e book provides a background of American public intellectual life from the 1960s through the 1980s - one of the very most contentious eras inside our background - and shows how Buckley led just how in drawing America to conservatism during those years.
