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.
Among his books is a history of his family, ''An American Family—The Buckleys'' (2008).
Personal life
Buckley was born in Paris, France, where his father worked in the oil industry. In 1952, he graduated from
Yale University
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, where he was a member of
Skull and Bones
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. Buckley's older brothers were former
New York Conservative United States Senator
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The composition and p ...
James L. Buckley
James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923) is an American politician, jurist, and lawyer who currently serves as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Buckley served in the United States Senat ...
, and conservative author and commentator
William F. Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded ''National Review'', the magazine that stim ...
, and his nephews are writer
Christopher Buckley and
Media Research Center
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The CMI promot ...
founder
L. Brent Bozell III.
Buckley died of cancer at a hospice in
Columbia, South Carolina
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in April 2014.
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.
* ''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
External links
The Buckley School of Public Speaking*
Simon & Schuster's Author Page for Reid BuckleyWestern Kentucky University photographs of Reid BuckleyObituary, by Jack Fowler, ''National Review''Obituary, by David Limbaugh, ''National Review''Legacy.com
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2014 deaths
American male writers
Buckley family
1930 births
Yale University alumni
Writers from Paris
Deaths from cancer in South Carolina