Background
Rusher, William Allen was born on July 19, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Evan Singleton and Verna (Self) Rusher.
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This entertaining work, sprinkled with illustrative real-life anecdotes, is a comprehensive guide to the techniques, rhetorical devices and principles of successful argumentation. The author, a debater since age thirteen, has lectured widely. Publisher of the National Review, Rusher is also a television commentator and syndicated columnist. Originally published by Doubleday in 1981.
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(Just when the argument rages, Mr. Rusher is here, extensi...)
Just when the argument rages, Mr. Rusher is here, extensively and trenchantly, to make the case for dropping the GOP. He my be wrong, but no one was ever timelier" William F. Buckley Jr.
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This book is the story of my seventeen months as a special counsel to the Internal Security Sub-committee of the United States Senate in the years 1956-1957"" reads the first sentence of the Foreword. The author wrote it up because some young people could not remember those degraded days of televised cross-examinations by Congressmen and Senators of glib confessed ex-Communists and uncooperative suspected Communists. It's the sort of book that will elicit savage comments from knee-jerk Liberals and Klaxon exclamations of delight from the up-tight Right. Mr. Rusher left his post to become publisher of the National Review, so there's your audience. He says he liked Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthy's post-censure days and ways are observed with sympathy. He also hashes over the unmemorable cases he worked on. None of them came to anything but they serve to reveal the author's past and present state of mind--he doesn't care for the First Amendment and scorns the Fifth, etc. One whole chapter is devoted to the recollection of the Subcommittee's attempts to incriminate Republican Senator Jacob Javits. It's ludicrous or persuasive, according to how you split you ticket. But if you just read a great deal without a political blood pressure, it's just ineffably dull. - Kirkus Review
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As the twentieth century closes, having withstood two world wars, a massive economic depression, and the rise of murderous, despotic regimes that based their existence on rationalistic theories, the legacy of the Enlightenment has come under new scrutiny. This new collection of essays from the Claremont Institute examines both the beneficial aspects of the Enlightenment as well as those considered detrimental. Including essays by political and social scientists such as Charles Kesler and Ernest van den Haag as well as scientists like Edward Teller and Sir Fred Hoyle, this book examines why in the postmodern world of the late twentieth century, the application of reason, rationalism, and the scientific method to explain natural, social, and economic phenomena takes place almost without a second thought. While these modes of looking at the world have provided considerable benefits, especially when related to the natural realm, the perpetual use of reason and rationalism to explain man's existence has nudged theology aside, allowing secular humanism to displace reliance on a divine Providence and often leaving mankind spiritually adrift. Co-published with the Claremont Institute.
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Rusher, William Allen was born on July 19, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Evan Singleton and Verna (Self) Rusher.
AB, Princeton University, 1943. Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1948. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Nathaniel Hawthorne College, 1973.
Associate, Shearman & Sterling & Wright, New York City, 1948-1956; special counsel finance committee, New York Senate, 1955; associate counsel internal security subcommittee, United States Senate, 1956-1957; public, vice president, National Review magazine, New York City, 1957-1988; also board directors, National Review magazine, New York City Distinguished fellow, The Claremont Institute, since 1989. Member Advisory Task Force on Civil Disorders, 1972.
(As the twentieth century closes, having withstood two wor...)
(This book is the story of my seventeen months as a specia...)
(This entertaining work, sprinkled with illustrative real-...)
(Just when the argument rages, Mr. Rusher is here, extensi...)
Board of directors Media Research Center, Washington, National Review Board, 1957-1988, 90-. Board advisors Ashbrook Center, Ashland, Ohio, past chairman. Past vice chairman American Conservative Union.
Past trustee Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento. Trustee, treasurer Wilbur Foundation, Santa Barbara. Served as Second lieutenant to captain, United States Army Air Force, 1943-1945, India-Burma Theater.
Member American Bar Association, U. Club (New York City and San Francisco), Metropolitan Club (Washington).