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American writer, speaker, and educator
Fergus Reid Buckley (July 14, 1930 – April 14, 2014) was an American writer, speaker, and educator. Buckley was the founder of The Buckley School of Public Speaking.
[1] Among his books is a history of his family, An American Family—The Buckleys (2008).
[2]
Personal life
Buckley was born in Paris, France, where his father was working in the oil industry. In 1952, he graduated from
Yale University , where he was a member of
Skull and Bones .
[3] Buckley's older brothers were former
New York Conservative
United States Senator
James L. Buckley , and conservative author and commentator
William F. Buckley Jr. , and his nephews are writer
Christopher Buckley and
Media Research Center founder
L. Brent Bozell III .
Buckley died of cancer at a hospice in
Columbia, South Carolina in April 2014, at age 83.
[1]
Works
Sex, Power and Pericles: Principles of Advanced Public Speaking. Peor Es Nada Press, 1997.
Strictly Speaking: Reid Buckley’s Indispensable Handbook on Public Speaking . McGraw-Hill, 1999.
USA Today: The Stunning Incoherence of American Civilization. P.E.N. Press, 2002.
[4]
An American Family: The Buckleys . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Speaking in Public: Buckley's Techniques for Winning Arguments and Getting Your Point Across . HarperCollins, 2010.
References
^
a
b Vitello, Paul (April 16, 2014).
"F. Reid Buckley, Novelist and Columnist, Dies at 83" – via NYTimes.com.
^ 2008, An American Family – The Buckleys , Threshold Editions,
Simon & Schuster ,
New York , 459 p.
^ "Fergus Reid Buckley". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 2 May. 2011.France
^ Buckley, Fergus Reid (2002).
USA Today : the stunning incoherence of American civilization (1st ed.). Camden, SC: P.E.N. Press.
ISBN
0-9721000-0-8 .
OCLC
52111343 .
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