Henry Regnery
Henry Regnery (1912-1996) was an American publisher.[1][2][3][4]
[edit] Biography
Regnery was born to a textile manufacturer on January 12, 1912 in Hinsdale, Illinois.[1][3][4][5] He obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1934, and an M.A. from Harvard University, where he worked with Joseph Schumpeter.[1][5][2][3][4] He also studied at Armour Institute of Technology, and from 1934 to 1936 at the University of Bonn.[1][5][4] Shortly after, he became a member of the America First Committee.[5]
He financed the creation of Human Events in 1944.[2] His publishing company, the Henry Regnery Company, now known as Regnery Publishing, would go on to publish two conservative classics, William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale (1951) and Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind (1953).[2][3][4]
He was a member of the American Conservatory of Music and the Chicago Literary Club.[5] His papers are kept at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[6]
[edit] Bibliography
- Creative Chicago: From the Chap-Book to the University
- The Cliff Dwellers: The History of a Chicago Cultural Institution
- Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d NNDB webpage
- ^ a b c d Robert McG. Thomas Jr, 'Henry Regnery, 84, Ground-Breaking Conservative Publisher', in The New York Times, June 23, 1996 [1]
- ^ a b c d Jeffrey O. Nelson, 'Henry Regnery: Missionary of Culture', in The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1996, pp.14-22
- ^ a b c d e First Principles Journal biography
- ^ a b c d e Chicago Literary Club biography
- ^ Henry Regnery papers
