Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American political satirist and the author of novels including 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, Supreme Courtship, and, most recently, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir. He is the son of William F. Buckley Jr. and Patricia Buckley and inherited Canadian citizenship through his mother. After a classical education at the Portsmouth Abbey School, Buckley graduated from Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University in 1975 as a member of Skull and Bones... like his father. He became managing editor of Esquire Magazine. In 1981, he moved to Washington, D.C., to work as chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. This experience led to his novel The White House Mess, a satire on White House office politics and political memoirs. Thank You for Smoking is another satire, its protagonist a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, Nick Naylor.
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