American writer, speaker, and educator (1930–2014)
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] 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] 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 ISBN 0-9721000-0-8 OCLC 52111343 .
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