William F. Buckley Jr. kept busy. Between the publication of “God and Man at Yale” in 1951 when he was 25 years old and his death in 2008 at age 82, the founder of National Review magazine and leader of the conservative intellectual movement in America rarely stopped to catch his breath. In addition to penning a thrice-weekly newspaper column and innumerable magazine essays, Buckley gave speeches, hosted the television program “Firing Line,” wrote 57 books, performed on the piano and harpsichord, flew planes, painted, skied, traveled the globe and crossed oceans on his sailboat. He packed more activity and experience into a single year than most people could fit into a century.
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