American writer apartment

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published 25 September 2008

A Manhattan apartment which was once the home of William F Buckley Jr, the American author and conservative commentator, is now on the market. The quirky property is a cooperative at 778 Park Avenue.

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In 1955 Buckley founded the political magazine National Review. He later hosted the television show ‘Firing Line’ between 1966 - 1999, and was a national newspaper columnist.

He would congregate at the property with two world leaders, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, as often as circumstances would permit.

Guide price: $24.5 million (Bective Leslie Marsh 020 7221 0099; www.bectivelesliemarsh.co.uk)

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