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Bill Buckley Gets Bigger Over Time

Polymath

Biographer Sam Tanenhaus calls him the architect of modern conservatism and the inventor of the TV debate format. Yet today generations have no idea who Buckley was.

Scott Porch

Published Aug. 17 2015 1:00AM EDT

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Scott Porch

Scott Porch

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