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Reid Buckley

An American Family

The Buckleys

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An extraordinary and sweeping memoir of one of the most revered families in America -- the BuckleysThe Buckley name is synonymous with a unique brand of conservatism -- marked by merciless reasoning, wit, good humor, and strong will. Self-made oil tycoon William F. Buckley, Sr., of Texas, and his Southern belle wife, Aloise Steiner Buckley, of New Orleans, raised a family of ten whose ideals would go on to shape the traditionalist revival in American culture.But their family history is anything but conventional. Begun in Mexico (until their father was expelled) and set against a diverse inter-national background (the children's first language… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Buckley, Christopher (Vorb.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4165-7242-8
  • EAN: 9781416572428
  • Produktnummer: 4468960
  • Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.0 cm 519 g
  • Gewicht: 519

Über den Autor


Reid Buckley, founder and head of the Buckley School of Public Speaking, graduated from Yale. During the 1960s and 1970s, he toured the United States, taking on liberal columnist Max Lerner. He is the author of the novels The Eye of the Hurricane, and the fiction trilogy Canticle of the Thrush, Servants and Their Masters, as well as several books on speaking and writing. He has also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The National Review. He lives in South Carolina.Christopher Buckley is a novelist, essayist, humorist, critic, magazine editor, and memoirist. His books include Thank You for Smoking, The Judge Hunter, Make Russia Great Again, and The Relic Master. He worked as a merchant seaman and White House speechwriter. He has written for many newspapers and magazines and has lectured in over seventy cities around the world. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.

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