Gratitude (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Freedom, Journalism or journalists, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Individuality, Poverty or poor people, Conservatism, Ethics, Money, Capitalism, Old age or elderly people, Juries, Military art or science, Altruism
Gratitude: Reflections on What We Owe to Our Country will surprise readers familiar with the career of William F Buckley, Jr. His arguments in support of national service radically contrast with the views for which he has achieved wide recognition. Buckley began his political life as a classical liberal or libertarian. He thought that the functions of the state ought to be reduced to the minimum compatible with an ordered society. Gratitude, by contrast, portrays Buckley as sharply opposed to libertarianism.
Buckley sprang to public attention in 1951, when his God and...
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