William A. Rusher
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William A. Rusher (born 1923, Chicago, Illinois), lawyer, publisher, conservative activist.
In 1957, William F. Buckley, Jr. hired Rusher as publisher of the conservative political magazine National Review. Rusher was an early mentor of Young Americans for Freedom and was active in the campaigns of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Rusher retired as National Review publisher in 1988. He now lives in San Francisco, California. During the hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination, Rusher released a collection of documents related to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group.
[edit] Further reading
- Rusher, William A. The Rise of the Right. New York: National Review Books (1993), 261 pages, ISBN 0-688-01936-6 (hardback) or ISBN 0-9627841-2-5 (paper). A semi-autobiographical history of American political conservatism from 1953 until 1981, updated to 1993 in the second edition.
[edit] External links
- Rusher's homepage at the Claremont Institute's website
- 1990 interview with Rusher
- Article in San Francisco Chronicle describing Rusher's role in the Alito hearings
- Rusher's comments regarding CAP on National Review's website
- Liberals lying about Iraqi 'lies'
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