Article: William F. Buckley, Jr. found dead in his home at 82.(Inside Track)(Obituary)(Brief article)

After suffering from diabetes and emphysema according to his son Christopher, William E Buckley, Jr. was found dead at his desk on February 27 at age 82. The author of 45 books, he wrote about sailing, penned a series of spy novels, and tweaked liberals with a string of politically oriented works beginning with God and Man at Yale. That book, written while Buckley was still a student at the liberal Ivy League university, made him a folk hero of sorts in the eyes of many conservatives.

In 1955, he launched National Review magazine with a staff that was top-heavy with Trotskyite socialists who would be properly labeled neoconservatives today. He used the magazine ...

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