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William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen.


In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley, Jr. achieved unique stature as a writer, a celebrity, and the undisputed godfather of modern American conservatism. He kept company with the best and brightest, the sultry and powerful. Ronald Reagan pronounced WFB “perhaps the most influential journalist and intellectual in our era,” and his jet-setting life was a who’s who of high society, fame, and fortune.

Among all his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine
National Review and hosting the long-running talk show Firing Line, Buckley was also a master of that most elusive art form: the eulogy. He drew on his unrivaled gifts to mourn, celebrate, or seek mercy for the men and women who touched his life and the nation.

Now, for the first time, WFB’s sweeping judgments of the great figures of his time—presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar gods—are collected in one place.
A Torch Kept Lit presents more than fifty of Buckley’s best eulogies, drawing on his personal memories and private correspondences and using a novelist’s touch to conjure his subjects as he knew them. We are reintroduced, through Buckley’s eyes, to the likes of Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, Truman Capote and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curated by Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, a Buckley protégé and frequent contributor to
National Review, this volumes sheds light on a tumultuous period in American history—from World War II to Watergate, the “death” of God to the Grateful Dead—as told in the inimitable voice of one of our most elegant literary stylists.William F. Buckley, Jr. is back—just when we need him most.
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"Mr. Rosen has mined this abandoned shaft of Buckley prose, excavating glittering ore: 52 obituaries devoted to luminaries from various walks of life—politics, the military, espionage, the world of arts and letters—as well as less prominent but cherished family members and friends. To each profile Mr. Rosen appends his own nicely measured introduction... Mr. Rosen’s selections capture Buckley’s wit and combativeness, as well as his humanity."  
The Wall Street Journal 

“Rarely is a writer’s greatest book published nearly a decade after his death… Buckley’s writing was a torch that illuminated many things — a keen sense of politics, a passion for the arts, a love of friends and family, an unwavering Catholic faith. In editing this anthology, Rosen has guaranteed it will be kept lit for the next generation.”
National Review Online 

A Torch Kept Litchronicles the writings of conservative icon William F. Buckley. So if you’re looking for some political definition for yourself, this is the book for you.”
Bill O’Reilly,The O’Reilly Factor

“William F. Buckley, Jr. was a master of many things.  This collection of obituaries and eulogies that he wrote over the course of his extraordinary career, admirably curated and eloquently introduced by James Rosen, may well establish WFB as
the modern master of this literary form.  I have read every single one of my father’s 60-odd books.  I do not exaggerate to propose that this may prove to be William F. Buckley’s finest book ever.”
—Christopher Buckley
 
"William F. Buckley was both an ideological warrior and a
bon vivant with a talent for friendship. He understood that a well-lived life should be simultaneously serious and fun, and that a death calls for a summing up, both measured and elegant. This volume gathers some of Buckley's best eulogies, deftly placed in context by James Rosen. It is a timely gift to a nation much in need of a reminder that one can be fervently engaged in public controversies without being coarse or unforgiving."
—George F. Will
 
"Compiling the best eulogies written by William F. Buckley is so inspired a concept that many political writers, myself included, will kick ourselves for not having thought of it first. But the idea was James Rosen’s, and he has executed it with skill and affection—and a great reporter’s nose for the story. The result is a work of literary art."
—Carl M. Cannon, Executive Editor, RealClearPolitics
 
"Acclaimed journalist, author, and Buckleyphile James Rosen has done a masterful job collecting, and contextualizing, these testaments to epic lives of the Twentieth Century by William F. Buckley, Jr. – a figure who indisputably deserves to be counted among them."
—Jonah Goldberg, author, columnist and senior editor, National Review
 
"William F. Buckley's sketches and vignettes of the prominent people of his time are absolute gems, and so are the introductions by James Rosen. A book to own, to read – and read again."
—Brit Hume, Senior Political Analyst, Fox News Channel

“Colorful…deliciously acerbic…Buckley’s descriptions are succinct, often scathing, sometimes disarmingly tender.”
Boston Globe

"Rosen has done a first-rate job of compiling, selecting, and editing Buckley’s recollections and tributes to the noteworthy deceased. Most impressive, however, are Rosen’s comments setting the stage for each entry. Buckley was an important mentor to young Rosen, as he had been for me a half-generation earlier. Rosen’s personal relationship with Buckley helped him to write with perspective and affection. Some quotes and anecdotes are surely transcriptions of their conversations."
City Journal

"The book is a great trip through the last half of the 20th century, riding first class with William Buckley." 
—The Readers Exchange

About the Author

As chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, James Rosen has covered the White House and State Department beats and reported from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, nearly all fifty states, and forty foreign countries across five continents. Rosen’s articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harper’s, The Atlantic, National Review, and Playboy, among many other periodicals. He is the author of The Strong Man: John Mitchelland the Secrets of Watergate and Cheney One on One.

National Review is a semimonthly magazine founded by author William F. Buckley, JR. in 1955 and is based in New York City. It is America’s most widely read and influential magazine and website for conservative news, commentary, and opinion.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Forum Books; Later prt. edition (October 4, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101906219
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1101906217
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.82 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
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Customers find the book easy to read and enjoyable. They praise the writing quality, context, and wit. The book provides an insightful and poignant look at the life of a great mind. Readers appreciate the value for money and consider it a great collection of Buckley's essays. They enjoy the humor and wit, describing it as entertaining and a literary joy.

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"...dozens of Bill Buckley eulogies written over the years, reflecting his life of relationships, his incredible connectedness to the most cosmopolitan..." Read more

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Customers find the book insightful and informative. They appreciate the useful context and clear glimpses into the lives of many important figures of the last century. The book is interesting and readable, showing Buckley's dignity, intellect, depth, and humanity.

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Customers appreciate the book's value. They find it a great collection of Buckley essays and descriptions of his life. The writing and insights by both Buckley and Rosen bring back memories.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2024
    One of life’s great pleasures to read the incomparable wit and great wisdom of William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2017
    William Buckley, Jr. is considered to be the “undisputed godfather of modern American conservativism.” He was on the national stage for 50 years as the founder and publisher of the “National Review” which is published semi-monthly; and also as the TV host who had the longest-running public affairs show, “Firing Line’” (33 years; 1504 episodes) in television history. The program featured influential public figures in the United States who were from the fields of politics, religion, literature and academia. They were interviewed about the ideas and issues of the day. The views of Buckley’s guests could sharply contrast or be in strong agreement with Buckley's.

    James Rosen, author of “A Torch Kept Lit” was a Buckley fellow and frequent contributor to “The National Review.” He is known mostly today as the chief Washington correspondent for FOX News. Rosen has covered the White House, the State Department and reported from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the supreme court, nearly all 50 states and 40 foreign countries across five continents.

    “A Torch Kept Lit”, Rosen’s third book was preceded by “Strongman John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate” and “Cheney One-On-One”. This book using eulogies written for the “National Review” by Buckley provides insights on the period from World War II to Watergate.

    Buckley, a keen observer of people and mannerisms, as well as their role in events uses eulogies to reveal hidden sides, to herald greatness if warranted, and to remind us of why certain people should be remembered as “abject failures or worse still, people.”

    Rosen has chosen fifty (out of 250) of what he considers to be the best of Buckley’s eulogies. They cover the great figures of his time – “presidents and prime ministers, celebrities and scoundrels, intellectuals and guitar gods” – as well as close friends and family. Those eulogies which may be of most interest include:

    • Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan
    • From Arts and Letters – Truman Capote, Johnny Carson, Alastair Cook, Milton Friedman, Jerry Garcia, Vladimir Horowitz, John Lennon, Norman Mailer, Elvis Presley, and A. M.Rosenthal
    • Generals, spies and statesmen – Winston Churchill, William Colby, Princess Diana, Allen Dulles, Barry Goldwater, Richard Helms, E. Howard Hunt, Martin Luther King, John Mitchell, Jacqueline Onassis.
    • Friends – Whittaker Chambers, John Kenneth Galbraith, Hume, David Niven
    • Nemeses – Algier Hiss, John Lindsay, Ayn Randy, Nelson Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

    Rosen prefaces each eulogy with background information specific to each subject’s nature and their relationship to Buckley.

    “A Torch Kept Lit” was a good read. Rosen, through Buckley’s eulogies, provides satisfying insights into the times and people who led us through the late 20th Century.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017
    It would be difficult for me to overstate how much I enjoyed this book. This book is a series of obituaries composed by William F. Buckley for National Review. The editor is James Rosen who compiled this collection of William F. Buckley's writings. Mr. Rosen wrote a introduction to each obituary that I also found both well written and most helpful. I purchased both the book on Kindle and the audiobook. I read the book and listened at the same time. The narration was really excellent and added to my reading experience.

    This book was both entertaining and educational. I learned about persons I did not really know about. When I came upon such a person, I researched their life. Of course I also learned what William F. Buckley thought about these individuals. I also ended up purchasing a novel authored by William F. Buckley as I had never read any of his fiction.

    I am really glad that Mr. Rosen took the time to assemble this excellent work. I am most grateful to have read it. Thank You...
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2017
    I have commented privately and written publicly more times than I can count how badly the conservative movement needs its 20th century torch-bearer right now, Bill Buckley. It is a common approach to take in times of frustration and even desperation – reflect on a time when things struck you as better than they are now, wax and wane nostalgic, and then wish a key person or circumstance of that era back into being. Buckley’s dear friend, Ronald Reagan, is the most often used culprit of such Republican fondness for the past, but my great longing is for Buckley himself, knowing that if there were no Bill Buckley there most certainly would never have been a Ronald Reagan. But I digress.

    My passion for Buckleyism far transcends the political, as I find in Buckley a joy and passion for the daily things of life that I covet far more than mere electoral victories (which are always and forever, temporal). Buckley was not just a movement conservative; he was THE movement conservative, and the 21st century gets to fight against modern progressive humanism because in the 20th century there was a movement championed by the likes of Buckley, and that movement won.

    The process of fighting the battle of ideas for truth and goodness meant a long life filled with engagement, and anyone engaged in intellectual and moral adventures for any period of time will engage in relationships. In relationships, we find our community. In relationships, we flirt with hate, and we pour ourselves into love. Buckley, a man I never met but whose legacy I am passionately committed to, strikes me as a man engaged in the act of relationships, whose own ideology played itself out in a lifetime of experiences and triumphs, all of which were in concert with relationships.

    So along comes this gem of a compilation from Fox News correspondent, James Rosen, himself a tremendous heir of the Buckley legacy. A Torch Kept Lit features dozens and dozens of Bill Buckley eulogies written over the years, reflecting his life of relationships, his incredible connectedness to the most cosmopolitan forces of our culture, and his mastery of the English language. Even for a lifetime reader of National Review like myself, this compilation shows Buckley with more layers and depth than the most fervent of his disciples could have imagined.

    And yes, it did re-provoke that desperate desire within me to have him back, but not just for the obvious reasons. The present trend of the right to reach for populist-nationalism as opposed to first things virtue and freedom is concerning. The concept of a de-intellectualized conservative movement is horrifying, though certainly avoidable. And I do believe in Buckley (and his heirs at National Review) we have all the remedy we need for what ails the lover of limited government. But what struck me most about decades of eulogy-writing from Buckley was the intense humanness of Buckley the man. His civility towards an intellectual rival such as John Kenneth Galbraith; his despair over the loss of his lifetime companion, wife, Pat; his compassion but disdain for the self-destruction through drugs and alcohol of respected friends like Truman Capote – in all of these angles we not only see a man for whom the 20th century had few peers, but we see a model of dignity, intellect, depth, and humanity that are sorely missed.

    I heartily commend this gem of a book to any who care for history, and to all movement conservatives who hope no eulogy for our own movement is forthcoming. In Buckley’s life and death, we have a blueprint for the righteousness and strategy of the cause.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2017
    Interesting concept - compiling obits written by W. F. Buckley. I'm a James Rosen fan - he is a clear thinker and bright spot on Fox. His introductions and thoughts hold these short essays together and, of course, WFB always delivers interesting, personal perspectives on his subjects. In all, a book well worth reading. I hope Rosen has more to say in the future.

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  • Major R. E. G. Sinke Jr. USMC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!! WFB was an idol of my youth ...
    Reviewed in Canada on November 13, 2016
    Outstanding!! WFB was an idol of my youth -- I miss him and am grateful to James Rosen for keeping his memory alive.
  • John Baguley
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2018
    Well written with great information.
  • Mary Lorna Bushor
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read. Extremely well written
    Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2016
    An excellent read. Extremely well written .
  • Rose
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on March 20, 2017
    what I was looking for
  • sjengler
    3.0 out of 5 stars Quirky conservative museum piece
    Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2017
    Hardly the tour de force that reviews and blurbs suggest, but certainly interesting. WFB veers at times into fawning praise on the one side and one-sided critique on the other, reflecting his own ideological (no surprise) and upper-class (shouldn't have been surprised) biases. More interesting for its reminder of the tone of old-school US conservatism than for the obituaries in themselves.