Sam Tanenhaus

1 week ago | newcriterion.com | Sam Tanenhaus

Show AllShow ArticlesShow DispatchShow TNC+ MultimediaAll Authors, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Abel, LionelAbowitz, RichardAdams, HarryAdams, J.

1 week ago | portside.org | Sam Tanenhaus

When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin Published May 25, 2025 In February 1965, three months after Barry Goldwater had been trounced by Lyndon B. Johnson in the presidential election, one of the Republican candidate’s most forceful advocates, William F. Buckley Jr., had an important event on his calendar.

2 weeks ago | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth King |Sam Tanenhaus

William F. Buckley, Jr., who died in February 2008, would have been 100 years old in November of this year. There are many tributes planned to celebrate his centenary. The huge, authorized biography by Sam Tanenhaus will be out in just a few weeks. I will not say anything about that book apart from noting that its subtitle—“The Life and the Revolution That Changed America”— is apt. For five or six years at the end of his life, I would generally see Bill at least weekly.

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Sam Tanenhaus

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped. In February 1965, three months after Barry Goldwater had been trounced by Lyndon B. Johnson in the presidential election, one of the Republican candidate’s most forceful advocates, William F. Buckley Jr., had an important event on his calendar.

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Sam Tanenhaus

In February 1965, three months after Barry Goldwater had been trounced by Lyndon B. Johnson in the presidential election, one of the Republican candidate’s most forceful advocates, William F. Buckley Jr., had an important event on his calendar. Taking a break from his annual ski vacation in Switzerland with his wife, Pat, he made his way to England for a debate at the Cambridge Union with one of the most celebrated writers alive, the novelist, memoirist, critic, and essayist James Baldwin.