Forty badass quotes.
Link here. I especially like Buckley’s comment to Gore Vidal.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Link here. I especially like Buckley’s comment to Gore Vidal.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
My favorite remains Leonides response to Xerxes at the Battle of Thermopylae.
I remember the way Buckley spoke, very deliberate, with a very scholarly intonation, bordering on pompous, to the point where even when I agreed 100% with what he said, I often found his manner of speaking annoying.
Imagining him saying this to Gore Vidal in his usual manner of speaking makes for an absolutely hilarious scene.
Yup. That is EXACTLY why the quote appeals to me so much. Buckley would have said it in his typically polite, soft-spoken scholarly manner, which would have made Vidal’s rudeness really stand out to be as ugly as it is.
I wonder if this can be viewed on youtube. I think I’ll do some searches.
Update: It is on youtube. See this.. A shorter clip is here. The debate took place during the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention and was discussing both the violence at the convention and the Vietnam war.
Thanks, that’s just as I pictured it! Will have to watch the longer video later; it promises to be entertaining.