L. Brent Bozell Jr.

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Leo Brent Bozell, Jr. (15 January 1926–15 April 1997) was a U.S. conservative activist and Catholic writer. His father was Leo Bozell the co-founder of Bozell Worldwide and his son is L. Brent Bozell III, also a conservative activist.

"A young, energetic red-haired Yalie from Omaha", as he is described in Before the Storm, he co-authored a defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy with his brother-in-law William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1953 before going on to write speeches for McCarthy. He also helped Buckley edit his magazine National Review. In 1958 he ran for the Maryland House of Delegates and lost. He later worked as a speechwriter for Republican senator Barry Goldwater, for whom he ghost-wrote the 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative.

In 1960 he took his family to Spain, where he founded the Catholic magazine Triumph in 1965. In his later years, Bozell suffered from bipolar disorder; he died in 1997.

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"A conservative electorate has to be created out of that vast uncommitted middle—the great majority of the American people who, though today they vote for Democratic or Modern Republican candidates, are not ideologically wedded to their programs or, for that matter, to any program. The problem is to reach them and to organize them."

[edit] Works

(contributor) The Best of Triumph. Lawrence, E. Michael, ed. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press ISBN 0-931888-72-7.
McCarthy and His Enemies (with Buckley, William F., Jr.) Chicago: Regnery, 1954. Reissued as ISBN 0-89526-472-2.
Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press ISBN 0-931888-73-5.

[edit] Sources

Buckley, William F., Jr. L. Brent Bozell, RIP [1]
Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus [2]