Nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Cable Television companies of the Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Beginning now on booktv we will spend time with the late author and columnist William F Buckley. This is part of our summer bins watch series which features one wellknown author. He found the National Review and help to the political Debate Program firing line for several years, also the author of 50 books which included his thoughts on politics, religion, culture, literature and other topics. He appeared on booktv and cspan at 45, we will share those programs with you. First up tonight, in 1993 Mister Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of his essays from his book happy days were here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993 book notes. Cspan on the cover of your book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. You always call yourself a libertarian . Guest as of course you know, something called the
Books with politics and religion and other topics and he appeared on the tv you. First in 1993 mr. Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of essays here he is from 1993 book notes. The always call yourself a libertarian . And that movement was encouraged by National Review the idea was to put out how much they had in common and then to be a libertarian. Does this augment or diminish human liberty . Cspan when you ran for mayor of new york you said as far as you are concerned he turned out the window and that the people pick it up. Your memory is the exchange i had with James Baldwin in which he was defending the littering of the streets that it was a form of protest against the city not paying close enough attention and i said its not very helpful to use that as a means should i mind out since i dont think he makes a good mayor . Cspan what do they get they buy the book . They get the best i can give them in various modes over the past eight years. So they covered the collapse of t
In my family, my grandmother and grandfather fought, so they met at the front, after the end of the war, they gave birth to six children, almost each of them had three more children, so i perceived only those families who had three children in childhood because i thought that if two children, you know, they forgot one somewhere, its very important to feel and understand that you are going in the same direction, that you have the same goals, that you get a kick out of the fact that you, wow, we were able to buy a house, do you remember how everyone . Ago we had no money at all, even to buy you a jacket, thanks to her, i am omnipotent, i can not stop in work, or in thought, in anything, i have so much courage that i am ready for some decisions, for which i myself would never have solved on my own, and this is all thanks to the fact that she is in my life. What kind of people, such stories, im sergei mayorov, see you on ntv, happily. Pentalgin extra, it contains a special component for be
Congratulations on it. Guest thank you. Coming for me thats praise indeed traded. Host you are kind indeed. Talk about the subtitle in your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio. I think it might be helpful originally to talk about these two men the context of their times. Of course they were defying me two men both alike in dignity to quote from shakespeare but separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that they shared one thing, a shakespeare wrote his plays seven years after he died. Two of his friends decided to create a memorial volume to him and collected all of that they had available and published 36 have been known 38 plays that shakespeare had written and the two men are connected across time and across the ocean and its the book that saved half of shakespeares plays from obscurity became a fetish object for collectors and henry folger chairman of the Editorial Company wanted to own every known copy of his first olio.
A fantastic book and i enjoyed it thoroughly. Its a pageturner a thrilling adventure permanently accessible. Congratulations on it. Guest thank you, coming from you that is praise indeed. Host talk about the subtitle of your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio but i think it might be helpful originally to talk about those two men in the context of their times. Of course if i made they were two men look alike in dignity quoting from shakespeare and yet separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that but they share one thing, a passion for in one case writing and the other collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would please. Guest sure. Shakespeare was writing around the 1600s. His life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. During the rain of elizabeth and james the first. He was a wellknown playwright poet. He wrote sonnets and he was also a businessman. Here is a shareholder in the globes Theater