{"product_id":"book-c106","title":"A Torch Kept Lit","description":"\u003cp\u003eA unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest  figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and  compiled by \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved  unique stature as a polemicist and the undisputed godfather of modern  American conservatism. He knew everybody, hosted everybody at his East  73rd Street maisonette, skewered everybody who needed skewering, and in  general lived life on a scale, and in a swashbuckling manner, that  captivated and inspired countless young conservatives across that  half-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong all of his distinctions, which include founding the conservative magazine \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e and serving as host on the long running talk show \u003ci\u003eFiring Line,\u003c\/i\u003e  Buckley was a master of that most elusive of art forms: the eulogy.  Buckley drew on his unrivaled gifts in what he liked to call \"the  controversial arts\" to mourn, celebrate, or seek eternal mercy for the  men and women who touched his life and the nation; to conjure their  personalities, recall memorable moments, herald their greatness; or to  remind readers of why a given individual, even with the grace that death  can uniquely confer, should be remembered as evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt all  points, these remembrances reflect Buckley's singular voice, with its  elegant touch and mordant humor, and lend to the lives departed a final  tribute consistent with their own careers, lives, and accomplishments.  Of the more than one hundred eulogies located in Buckley's vast archive of  published works, \u003ci\u003eA Torch Kept Lit\u003c\/i\u003e will collect the very best,  those remembering the most consequential lives (Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan),  the most famous to today's listeners (Elvis Presley, John Lennon,  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Princess Diana), those who loomed largest in  the conservative movement (Barry Goldwater, Milton Friedman), the most  accomplished in the literary world (William Shawn, Norman Mailer), the  most mysterious (Soviet spy Alger Hiss, CIA spymaster Richard Helms),  and those most dear to Buckley (his mother and father).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49295144911152,"sku":"BDc106","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49295144943920,"sku":"ZEc106","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49295144976688,"sku":"ZMc106","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/c106-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775810830","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c106","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}