Henry Regnery obtained a BS in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933, and an MA from Harvard University, where he worked with Joseph Schumpeter.
13 Facts About Henry Regnery
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Henry Regnery studied at Armour Institute of Technology, and from 1934 to 1936 at the University of Bonn.
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In 1944, Regnery financed the creation of the conservative newspaper Human Events.
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In 1951, Regnery published God and Man at Yale, the first book written by William F Buckley, Jr.
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At that time, Henry Regnery had a close affiliation with the University of Chicago and published classics for the Great Books series at the University, but he lost the contract as a result of publishing Buckley's book.
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In 1953, Regnery published Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind, as well as books by Albert Jay Nock, James J Kilpatrick, and James Burnham.
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Henry Regnery published paperback editions of literary works by novelist Wyndham Lewis and poets T S Eliot and Ezra Pound.
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In 1954, Regnery published McCarthy and His Enemies by William F Buckley and L Brent Bozell Jr.
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In 1954, Henry Regnery published Welch's biography of John Birch, an American Baptist missionary in China who was killed by Chinese Communists after he became a US intelligence officer in World War II.
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Henry Regnery was a member of the American Friends Service Committee, the American Conservatory of Music, and the Chicago Literary Club.
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Henry Regnery was a trustee of Shimer College in the early 1960s and president of the Philadelphia Society.
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Henry Regnery died age 84 on June 18,1996, in Chicago of complications of brain surgery.
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Henry Regnery's papers are kept at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.