He died at a retirement home, where he lived since 2004, after a long illness, said David b. Frisk, the author of a biography from Mr. Rusher.
As Mr. Buckley, founder of National Review Editor, Mr. Rusher defended post-war conservatism as a movement political dominant of this first national success tasted at the Republican Barry m. Goldwater presidential inauguration in 1964 and realized his dream with the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency in 1980.
A lawyer who helped lay the groundwork for conservative ascendancy of the Republican party, Mr. Rusher was a relentless critic of cause: the author of five books, published dozens of articles and "The conservative Advocate", a syndicated column in newspapers across the country for 36 years. He has lectured widely and discussed the opponents of the left and right on the radio and television.
While he never public office, he entered the fray of several campaigns. Two colleagues and he founded the movement of project-Goldwater in 1961. With other prominent conservatives, he opposed the re-election of Mr. of Richard Nixon in 1972 by the openings of the President to China. He started a third party who fail in 1976 and was a councillor in the presidential campaign of Reagan, four years later.
Mandate of 31 years of Mr. Rusher as publisher of National Review, from 1957 to 1988, goes hand in hand with the growth of mainstream conservatism. Founded in 1955 in the offices of small, crowded, Dickens, in Manhattan, with a circulation of 16,000 magazine has increased in the 1980s to a pinnacle of influence, with 100,000 readers, and Reagan, his ideological filleul, the White House. In addition to overseeing the Affairs of the magazine side, Mr. Rusher introduced his column in its pages in 1973.
His first major work, "The making of the new majority Party" (1975), was a manifesto for a conservative alliance replaced the Republican party. Americans themselves conservative appellant did already know a majority, he said, but he, being politically independent or dispersed in the Republican and democratic ranks: people who appreciated the work ethic, religion and patriotism and opposes communisman increase in taxes and Government spending.
In an Op - Ed for The New York Times article in 1975, Mr. Rusher explained how it might work. "The solution only practice, therefore, for the (largely represented by Reagan) conservative Republicans and conservative Democrats (more that have in the past supported Wallace)" - a reference to the Governor George Wallace of c. of Alabama-"for a new party of the majority is unissentcon?u to win the Presidency and Congress and replace the Professor G.O.P. in its entirety" as one of the two main parties of America. ?
In 1976, put his ideas into practice, Mr. Rusher and others founded the new party of the majority. But it collapsed during the summer at the Chicago convention after a rival group led by the presidential election of Lester g. Maddox, former Governor of Georgia and a segregationist pleaded. Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, defeated President Gerald Ford of r., Republican, in the general election.
A month after the election of Reagan in 1980, National Review celebrates its 25th anniversary with a party. "I really think that this is the watershed moment", said Mr. Rusher. "Conservatism is at the crossroads." And incidentally, our old enemy liberalism died.
William Allen Rusher was born in Chicago on July 19, 1923, the son of Evan and Verna Self successful. His father, a Republican businessman, moved to the New York area when William was a boy. He attended school in Great Neck, Long Island and New York, graduated from Princeton in 1943, served in the air force army in India in the second world war and obtained a degree from Harvard Law in 1948.
He worked in New York law firm Shearman, Sterling & Wright from 1948 to 1956 and associate counsel for the Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the Senate of the United States in 1956 and 1957. Developed of the cold war, Mr. Rusher turns more and more to conservative policy.
When he joined the National Review as an editor, vice President and Director in 1957, the magazine was a small conservative ship in a sea of liberal journals. For years, he had deficits of $100,000 or more and was kept afloat largely by gains of Mr. Buckley of the speech and the television appearances.
Mr. Frisk, the author of "if not us, who?: William Rusher, National Review and the conservative movement," should be published this year, said Mr. Rusher Mr. Buckley's relationship with relatives but complex. Beyond the magazine business, the two often discuss strategies in the conservative movement in development, including the opposition of Mr Rusher to Nixon and his willingness to break with the Republican party to form a national Conservative Party.
Mr. Rusher takes a role in the young Americans for freedom, founded in 1960 to the estate of Mr. Buckley Connecticut and the American Conservative Union, founded after the loss of Goldwater President Lyndon b. Johnson landslide in 1964. The two organizations promoted candidates and conservative ideas.
In its history, "the rise of the right" (1984), Mr. Rusher detailed efforts by conservatives like him to retrieve American values old and trustworthy, to renew the spirit of free enterprise and to capture the Republican party for Goldwater and later the Reagan White House.
"I do not think he exaggerated to say that without William Rusher, the conservative revival in America would have not occurred," Dr. Edward n. Peters, a Catholic canon lawyer, wrote a review for the Magazine reflections. "Rusher wrote a surprisingly informative account of the return to good thinking."
But writes in The New York Times Book Review, Lewis h. Lapham, the former Chief Editor of the liberal magazine Harper, called the book interested. "All but alone, against some pretty heavy odds (that is, any weight, trend and ethos of the 20th century), he was saved from death the United States of America by liberalism," wrote Mr. Lapham. "Certainly, he had a little help from his friends, including William f. Buckley, editor in Chief of the National Review, but mostly it is Bill Rusher."
Mr. Rusher, who married never left no immediate survivors.
Mr. Rusher joined the conservative Claremont Institute, a research organization in California, in 1989. He ended his column syndicated in 2009.
"Without doubt," he wrote in a farewell "factor, the most important in the growth of conservatism has been the realization on the part of individual curators, that their views were shared by others and collectively constitute a formidable national influence.".
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