Top 7 best firing line for 2018
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1. Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Ten Years of Firing Line: 1966-1976: Part I
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Taped on September 20, 1976. Ten years is a long time in television, and a tenth anniversary is worthy of a celebration. This show is an anthology of memorable clips-some lasting several minutes, others just a couple of paragraphs-from this first decade's shows. But first, a few words from Mr. Buckley about Firing Line itself: "Our aim is to get people who have something to say. They can say it on Firing Line without having to jump over roadblocks every few minutes. They can indulge their own styles of thought and speech. They can be frenetic or leisurely. They need only to watch their logic, and be prepared to examine previously unexamined deposits of prejudice, if they are burdened by them. Firing Line is devoted to the proposition that interesting people can be interesting through the course of an entire hour. Failures at this level have been very few. But then, to quote the buoyant observation of Harold Nicolson, 'Ninety-nine people out of a hundred are interesting; and the hundredth is interesting because he is the exception.'" Summary by Firing Line Staff.When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
2. Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.
When Firing Line premiered on American television in 1966, just two years after Barry Goldwaters devastating defeat, liberalism was ascendant. Though the left seemed to have decisively won the hearts and minds of the electorate, the shows creator and host, William F. Buckleyrelishing his role as a public contrarianmade the case for conservative ideas, believing that his side would ultimately win because its arguments were better. As the founder of the rights flagship journal, National Review, Buckley spoke to likeminded readers. With Firing Line, he reached beyond conservative enclaves, engaging millions of Americans across the political spectrum.
Each week on Firing Line, Buckley and his gueststhe cream of Americas intellectual class, such as Tom Wolfe, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Henry Kissinger, and Milton Friedmandebated the urgent issues of the day, bringing politics, culture, and economics into American living rooms as never before. Buckley himself was an exemplary host; he never appealed to emotion and prejudice; he engaged his guests with a unique and entertaining combination of principle, wit, fact, a truly fearsome vocabulary, and genuine affection for his adversaries.
Drawing on archival material, interviews, and transcripts, Open to Debate provides a richly detailed portrait of this widely respected ideological warrior, showing him in action as never before. Much more than just the story of a television show, Hendershots book provides a history of American public intellectual life from the 1960s through the 1980sone of the most contentious eras in our historyand shows how Buckley led the way in drawing America to conservatism during those years.
3. Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Economic Lot of Minorities"
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Taped on November 12, 1981.Mr. Sowell had taken a great deal of flak from the establishment for his dissection of clichs about racial discrimination, but he simply makes his points and defies anyone to misunderstand him: "People often say that I'm denying that there's racism. On the contrary, racism exists everywhere around the world, down through history. That's one of the reasons it's hard to use it as an empirical explanation for anything. In the United States, for example, Puerto Ricans have lower incomes than blacks. I don't know of anyone who believes Puerto Ricans encounter more discrimination than blacks. Obviously there must be something else involved besides discrimination." ... Examiner Harriet Pilpel: "Are you against labor unions?" Mr. Sowell: "You asked what were some of the factors that stood in the way of black economic progress, and I said that one of them was the labor union. That is a fact, and I'm simply reporting facts, not prejudices."
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4. Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "How to Speak, How to Listen"
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Taped on April 14, 1983. A visit from Professor Adler is always a treat. On this occasion--sparked by his latest book, "How to Speak and How to Listen"--he reminds us that real conversation doesn't come naturally. We have to work at speaking clearly and listening attentively just as we have to work at writing clearly and reading attentively. Buckley: "What are the responsibilities of the speaker to attract that kind of attention? Should you be able, as a finished listener, to listen to dull people?" Adler: "No, any more than you should be able to read well a bad book."Summary by Firing Line staff.
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5. Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Culture of the Left"
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Taped on February 26, 1968"He calls himself," says Buckley in his introduction to the first of Muggeridge's several appearances on Firing Line, "a man of the Left. . . . His apostasies from the Left are, however, so numerous as to leave him a member of the Left in the same sense that, say, Bishop Pike is a member of the Episcopal Church." But let Muggeridge speak for himself: "Well, Bill, I think you must distinguish between being a member of the Left and being a liberal. I regard liberalism as the great disease of our society, and when I said that people like Mrs. Roosevelt, admirable though they were in intentions, would be seen to have done more damage than people like Hitler and Stalin, I meant precisely that. Hitler and Stalin got a lot of people killed and precipitated the great war, but they are now discredited. But liberalism, which has been the dominant philosophy in the most influential and powerful nations of the West, continues to thrive despite the fact that every time it's been applied, the consequences have been disastrous." Summary by Firing Line staff.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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7. Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Economics and Politics of Race"
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Taped on November 3, 1983. Mr. Sowell had just produced a blockbuster, called The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective. Any author who writes about the topic of group characteristics is taking a tremendous risk, but Mr. Sowell (a) is not averse to risk and (b) had approached his topic empirically rather than polemically, presenting data that show how the peoples of various regions of the world have fared in different areas of endeavor. As we have learned before on Firing Line, he speaks as lucidly and compellingly as he writes: "One of the things I wanted to deal with in this book ... is whether a group is formed by the society around it or whether, in fact, a group has its own pattern which follows it wherever it goes.... I looked at groups in other countries--Germans in Brazil and Australia and Russia, the Chinese in Indonesia and the United States and other countries--to see if they do in fact have their own pattern or are they simply reflecting what happened to them in that particular country, and what I found, by and large, was that they had their own pattern."Summary by Firing Line staff.
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