Reid Buckley

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] Buckley was born in Paris, France, where his father worked 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.[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.
  • 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.

Obituaries

Jack Fowler David Limbaugh Legacy.com New York Times Powers Funeral Home

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References
  1. Vitello, Paul (April 16, 2014). "F. Reid Buckley, Novelist and Columnist, Dies at 83" – via NYTimes.com.
  2. 2008, An American Family – The Buckleys, Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, New York, 459 p.
  3. "Fergus Reid Buckley." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 2 May. 2011.France
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