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A Torch Kept Lit audiobook
- By: William F. Buckley
- Narrator: Tony Pasqualini
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Editors, Journalists
- Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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A Torch Kept Lit Audiobook Summary
A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century’s greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen.
In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique stature as a polemicist and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He knew everybody, hosted everybody at his East 73rd Street maisonette, skewered everybody who needed skewering, and in general lived life on a scale, and in a swashbuckling manner, that captivated and inspired countless young conservatives across that half-century.
Among all of his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine National Review and serving as host on the long running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was a master of that most elusive of art forms: the eulogy. Buckley drew on his unrivaled gifts in what he liked to call “the controversial arts” to mourn, celebrate, or seek eternal mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation; to conjure their personalities, recall memorable moments, herald their greatness; or to remind readers of why a given individual, even with the grace that death can uniquely confer, should be remembered as evil.
At all points, these remembrances reflect Buckley’s singular voice, with its elegant touch and mordant humor, and lend to the lives departed a final tribute consistent with their own careers, lives, and accomplishments. Of the more than one hundred eulogies located in Buckley’s vast archive of published works, A Torch Kept Lit will collect the very best, those remembering the most consequential lives (Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan), the most famous to today’s listeners (Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Princess Diana), those who loomed largest in the conservative movement (Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman), the most accomplished in the literary world (William Shawn, Norman Mailer), the most mysterious (Soviet spy Alger Hiss, CIA spymaster Richard Helms), and those most dear to Buckley (his mother and father).
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A Torch Kept Lit Audiobook Narrator
Tony Pasqualini is the narrator of A Torch Kept Lit audiobook that was written by William F. Buckley
Tony Pasqualini has performed in and directed over a hundred plays on countless stages around the country for forty years. He is one of the founders of the Freehold Theatre and Acting Studio in Seattle as well as a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles. Tony has also guest starred on many television shows including The Office, Without a Trace, CSI: NY, Mad Men, Bones, and Frasier.
About the Author(s) of A Torch Kept Lit
William F. Buckley is the author of A Torch Kept Lit
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A Torch Kept Lit Full Details
| Narrator | Tony Pasqualini |
| Length | 9 hours 29 minutes |
| Author | William F. Buckley |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 26, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781504757072 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Torch Kept Lit is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Editors, Journalists
Additional info
The publisher of the A Torch Kept Lit is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781504757072.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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