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Irving William Kristol (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t əl /; January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American journalist and writer. As a founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the latter half of the twentieth century. [1]
Irving Kristol was an American essayist, editor, and publisher, best known as an intellectual founder and leader of the neoconservative movement in the United States. His articulation and defense of conservative ideals against the dominant liberalism of the 1960s influenced generations of
Irving Kristol (1920–2009), one of the great essayists, editors, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, was at the center of a transformative force in American politics and thought: neoconservatism.His own writings, as well as his founding and editing of the important quarterly, The Public Interest, were crucial to the emergence of that movement—or “persuasion,” as he called it.But even if neoconservatism never had come into being, Kristol would be remembered for his more ...
Sep 18, 2009 · Irving William Kristol was born on Jan. 20, 1920, in Brooklyn into a family of low-income, nonobservant Jews. His father, Joseph, a middleman in the men’s clothing business, went bankrupt ...
Irving Kristol was one of the most influential writers, editors, and political commentators of the last half of the twentieth century. His obituaries credited him “with helping to transform the political landscape of the United States in the late 20th century” ( The Telegraph of London ) and “defin[ing] modern conservatism and . . . setting the stage for the Reagan presidency” ( The New York Times ).
Irving Kristol was one of the most influential writers, editors, and political commentators of the last half of the twentieth century. His obituaries credited him “with helping to transform the political landscape of the United States in the late 20th century” (The Telegraph of London) and “defin[ing] modern conservatism and . . . setting the stage for the Reagan presidency” (The New York Times).[Read More]
Nov 29, 2011 · Irving Kristol (1920–2009) was one of the most important and influential American social thinkers for more than a half century. He was the first person to be assigned the label “neoconservative” (with pejorative intent, by the socialist Michael Harrington), a title he readily accepted. (At the time the term referred mainly to matters of domestic policy; it had not yet taken on the foreign-policy implications sometimes rightly or wrongly associated with it more recently.) ...
Updated Sept. 18, 2009 Irving Kristol was a political commentator who, as much as anyone, defined modern conservatism and helped revitalize the Republican Party in the late 1960s and early '70s ...
Sep 24, 2009 · REGRETS were very few in Irving Kristol's long, happy and disputatious life. He had none at all for his youthful flirtation with Trotskyism, over coffees and egg sandwiches, in gloomy Alcove 1 at ...
Sep 18, 2009 · Irving Kristol, writer, editor, and social philosopher, has died in Washington at the age of 89. His wisdom, wit, good humor, and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several ...
