Christopher Buckley Fabricates His Autobiography

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Political satirist and author Christopher Buckley tells of how he fabricated the "About the Author" section of his latest book. Among the many fibs, one claim returned to haunt him in surprising ways.

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Political satirist, humor writer and novelist, Christopher Buckley is the author of fourteen books, including Supreme Courtship, Boomsday, and Thank You For Smoking.

He is the only child of Patricia Taylor Buckley and William F. Buckley, Jr, the father of the modern conservative movement and founder of The National Review. For his writing, Christopher Buckley has been awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Buckley wrote a column for the right-leaning National Review, in which he endorsed Barack Obama.

He subsequently resigned from the magazine in the wake of a reader outcry. His forthcoming memoir, Losing Mum and Pup, chronicles the year in which both his parents died. With grace and warmth, Christopher Buckley illuminates their larger-than-life personalities, even as he relates the pain of losing them. - City Arts and Lectures

Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American political satirist and the author of several novels. He is the son of William F. Buckley Jr. and Patricia Buckley. After a classical education at the Portsmouth Abbey School, Buckley, like his father, graduated from Yale University, as a member of Skull and Bones. He became managing editor of Esquire Magazine and later worked as the chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. His novels include God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, and, most recently, Supreme Courtship.

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[SteamboatPolar]

Really a wonderful voice of reason and humor. I am a liberal dem that grew up watching and reading his dad, and respecting him greatly.

And now the son has almost as much intellect, but adds a healthy dose of self depreciating humor. We need a lot more writers and commentators like this guy.

[fctchk]

William F. Buckley built a US TV career on catering to an audience so wowed by his pompous vacuous verbosity (which, they mistook for profundity) that they failed to notice how wrong this pseudo-intellectual devout catholic was on segregation -which he supported; the Vietnam war - which he cheer led; creationism -which he believed; the Theory of Evolution - which he rejected; being “the man Christ-God died for” -which never happened.

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[DermochelysCoriacea]

hahahahaha

[smartypants88]

Not half the man his father was....trying mostly to be popular, and does not "get" what his father stood for. God forgive him.

[TheDemonPazuzu]

I read his father's private mail exchanges with Commander George Lincoln Rockwell in the biography "American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party," which was an interesting read.