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Article: Buckley Gives Up Ownership of National Review
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- Human Events
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- July 5, 2004
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Not quite 50 years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review, which joined HUMAN EVENTS (now celebrating its 60th anniversary) as one of two national conservative periodicals. Last week, at a private dinner in New York, Buckley relinquished his ownership of NR to a handpicked board of trustees.
"The question is choose some point to quit or die onstage," Buckley said, explaining his decision to the New York Times. "Thought was given and plans were made to proceed with divestiture."
Buckley first leapt to prominence as a conservative writer and thinker in 1951, when Henry Regnery Company published his first book, God and Man at Yale. As it happens, this book was presaged by an ...