Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches

This collection from the late William F Buckley Jr spans five transformative decades, and includes speeches on a multifarious array of subjects. Let Us Talk of Many Things is a collection of speeches from occasions throughout the long life of the late William F Buckley. Beginning with the twenty-four-year-old author challenging the powers at Yale University, we hear Buckley addressing a rally at Carnegie Hall in protest against Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the US; facing off against Norman Mailer in a 1962 debate; and addressing the Young Americans for Freedom in 1964 in support of Barry Goldwater’s candidacy for the Presidency.Later, as the intellectual leader and patriarch of the conservative movement, Buckley broadens to give talks on a vast range of topics, always expressing well-informed and provocative opinions - on the end of the Cold War, manners in politics, the failure of the War on Drugs, the importance of Margaret Thatcher, the importance of winning the America’s Cup, Walter Cronkite and John Kenneth Galbraith, and a plethora of other subjects. This reissued edition will be supplemented with speeches given after the book’s original publication, in 2000.