James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America with Dr. Nicholas Buccola

Episode Summary

Dr. Nicholas Buccola, Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science and founding director of the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice at Linfield College, joins McConnell Center Director Dr. Gary L. Gregg II to discuss his book The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America,which focuses on the different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to their historic debate on February 18, 1965.

Links Mentioned

• Nicholas Buccola, The Fire is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America 
• https://www.nicholasbuccola.com
• Video: James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w 

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