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Christopher Taylor Buckley
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Christopher Taylor Buckley was born in New York, United States, on December 24, 1952. His father was a famous American journalist who founded the conservative political magazine National Review and created several popular television shows.
Christopher entered Yale University after graduation. After receiving a diploma, he got a job as the editor-in-chief of an advertising magazine. In 1981, he was appointed speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush.
The writer constantly observed the mores
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Christopher Taylor Buckley was born in New York, United States, on December 24, 1952. His father was a famous American journalist who founded the conservative political magazine National Review and created several popular television shows.
Christopher entered Yale University after graduation. After receiving a diploma, he got a job as the editor-in-chief of an advertising magazine. In 1981, he was appointed speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush.
The writer constantly observed the mores of the political elite and drew the appropriate conclusions, this became the basis of the satirical novel “The turmoil in the White House”, which was published in 1986.
In the same year, the author’s work Smoking Here was published, in which he wittyly ridiculed the dirty technologies of advertising companies. In 2006, a film was made based on this novel.
In 1998, the book “God is my broker” was published, where he gave recommendations on how to do business. In 1999, Christopher Buckley mocked people’s fascination with paranormal phenomena in a piece called “The Green Men.” And the book “The First Lady is not treated like this” cemented the writer’s fame as the most witty American satirist.
In his works, the author ridicules both business and politics, his books have been translated into twelve languages. In addition, he wrote articles for the most popular publications: Vogue, Smithsonian, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly.
In the early 2000s, Buckley was appointed editor-in-chief of Forbes FYI, in parallel, he wrote a column in the New Yorker, where he published his comic essays.
Over the years, the writer created many authentic but evil parodies of reality, hurting the reader’s love for political revelations, sensations and troubles.