William F. Buckley, Jr. (The Sixties in America)
Early Life
William Frank Buckley, Jr., was born into a wealthy, large Roman Catholic family. As a student at Yale, he was an outspokenly conservative debater and editor of the school paper. In 1951, he published God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom,” an indictment of what he saw as Yale’s anti-Christian, anticapitalistic academic atmosphere. He married Patricia Taylor in 1950; they had one son, Christopher. He worked briefly for the Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico and as associate editor of American Mercury magazine. Buckley and...
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