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Irving Kristol was born in New York in 1920, and lived a life so much in keeping with his ideas that he blended the two in his memoir, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea. He was a man in harmony with himself — not in love with himself, which can lead to intellectual hubris, but at home with himself in the same way he was ...
Sep 20, 1995 · Irving Kristol, a writer and thinker par excellence, provides us with a compendium of wide ranging focal points in the modern conservative movement. A highly pragmatic account from a man who has been an adherent of the Marxist left, a journalist and ultimately a new spokesman for the values and intellectual reasoning behind modern conservatism.
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May 18, 2011 · Irving Kristol seems to have wanted his writing to have the effect of a good martini on a beleaguered corporate executive. The executive’s prejudices, widely scorned among the young and the ...
Mar 15, 1999 · The movement called neo-conservatism has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neo-conservatism can be said to have a father or an architect, that person is Irving Kristol. Schooled in radical socialism in the 1930s, Kristol grew disillusioned with the left and rose to become an ...
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Sep 21, 2009 · This undated photo provided by The Weekly Standard shows Irving Kristol, who died Friday, September 18, 2009. He Was 89. He Was 89. AP, Courtesy of The Weekly Standard hide caption
Irving Kristol was the "godfather" of the neoconservatives, Esquire asserted, a leader of the disillusioned social scientists and intellectuals whose drift rightward in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in supply-side economics, the broken-windows theory of policing, the rejection of détente, and other innovations in economic, social, and foreign ...
Jan 1, 1995 · 3.64. 112 ratings8 reviews. Neoconservatism is the movement that has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neoconservatism can be said to have a father or an architect, that person is Irving Kristol. Neoconservatism is the most comprehensive selection of Kristol's influential ...
