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Living on Fire: The Life of L. Brent Bozell Jr. BY DANIEL KELLY ISI, 272 PAGES, $27.95
One of the most significant figures in postwar American intellectual life, L. Brent Bozell Jr. has long gone understudied and underappreciated. Speechwriter for Joseph McCarthy and ghostwriter of Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, Bozell first came to prominence as one of the key architects of the conservative movement in America. A traditionalist Catholic, his effort to imagine and realize an authentically Catholic social order led him to abandon political conservatism at the very moment it began to achieve its most significant electoral victories in the late 1960s.