Author Meets Critics: The Fire is Upon Us by Nicholas Buccola

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

This panel focuses on THE FIRE IS UPON US, Nicholas Buccola's masterful new book (being published by Princeton University Press) on the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., and the surrounding moment in American politics and political thought. The book provokes important conversations about the civil rights movement, the 1960s, the rise of the contemporary conservative movement, and race in American politics. Panel members will include Professor Buccola alongside interlocutors including Susan McWilliams Barndt (Pomona College), Joe Lowndes (the University of Oregon), and Justin Rose (Hobart and William Smith Colleges).

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Chair

• Susan McWilliams Pomona College

Presenters

• Nicholas R. Buccola Linfield College

• Joseph E. Lowndes University of Oregon

• Justin Rose Hobart & William Smith Colleges