William F. Buckley wasn’t very easily forgotten.

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

William F. Buckley, Jr. is widely considered one of the architects of the modern conservative movement who influenced generations of politicians, including Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater.

William Frank Buckley Jr. was born in New York City on November 24, 1925, the sixth of the 10 children of William F. Buckley Sr., a strong-willed Texas oilman and Irish Catholic, and Aloise ...

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

Over the course of his career, William F. Buckley Jr. moderated some of his more radical conservative views. (Cynthia Johnson/For The Washington Post) Julius Krein is the editor of American Affairs.

Well, I’m flipping through my file on Christmas morning and I come across the sworn testimony of William F. Buckley Jr. His name is redacted, but I know immediately who it is. Who else would ...

There was Buckley’s public life as a celebrity, mixing with high society and entertaining the nation on television; there was his work in leading and defining the modern conservative movement ...

His prison prose earned him the sympathies and legal aid of William F. Buckley Jr. (right), which the National Review editor would come to deeply regret. NY Post photo composite Lisa Ozbun was ...

PBS released the documentary "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley" on the life of William F. Buckley Jr. Photo by Dirck Halstead/Getty Images Imagine making a documentary about one of the 20th century ...

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955. ‘I know that I shall never see, a poem lovely as Skippy’s peanut butter.’ On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, NR honors Tom ...