On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures
Publisher: Random House, April 15, 1989.
Edition: First
Book Condition: New (Ex-Library)
Jacket Condition: NO DUST COVER
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0394575687 / 9780394575681
Transcripts from the television series "Firing Line" offer interviews with a range of important figures, including Henry Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Dukakis, and Tom Wolfe
From Library Journal
This book, a highlight of the 23-year-old Firing Line TV series, will be a joy for anyone who delights in the raised eyebrows and erudite salvos at guests who dare to be less doctrinaire conservative than host Buckley. The book's pages read like a Who's Who of luminaries in politics, the arts, and journalism, including George McGovern, Barry Goldwater, presidents from Nixon to Reagan, and a number of heads of state of other nations. Most of the major social and political issues of the decades involved are scrutinized, but the real pleasure of this work is Buckley's artful commentary in which he illustrates "manifest evasiveness" in some of his guests and "fine reasoning" in others. Delightful and challenging reading. For the liberal journalist's viewpoint, see Bill Moyers's A World of Ideas, reviewed below.
- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Item #5944
- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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