Highly recommend this podcast which covers a lot of William F. Buckley stuff, with new information from Sam Tanenhaus, who is working on a huge new biography. Very good on Buckley's enviable social skills but unsparing about his politics.https://twitter.com/DissentMag/status/1429878070081724420 …
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The stuff about Buckley's South Carolina side and how it shaped his racism is interesting. It's not widely known but one of Buckley's childhood homes was one of the biggest former slave plantations in south, once owned by James Chestnut, who ordered firing on Ft. Sumter.
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Yep. A storied plantation.
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