- Henry Fairlie
Henry Fairlie (1924 - 1990) was a British journalist for "
The Spectator ", which he joined in 1955. Before that he had been a feature writer for "The Observer " 1948-50, and a political editorial writer for "The Times " 1950-54. He was also a regular contributor toThe New Republic from the mid-1970s until his death in 1990. [Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.] He relocated to the United States in 1965 to avoid a British libel suit, for having called his onetime loverAntonia Fraser a whore on television. [Terzian, P. "Fairlie Tales", The American Spectator, May90, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p29, 2p, 1 illustration]He coined the term
The Establishment in his column in "The Spectator" on 23 September, 1955. Fairlie wrote::"By the "Establishment", I do not only mean the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised. The exercise of power in Britain (more specifically, in England) cannot be understood unless it is recognised that it is exercised socially." [M. J. Cohen and John Major (eds.), "Cassell's History in Quotations" (Cassell, 2004), p. 918.]
Books
*The Life of Politics, Methuen, 1969.
*The Kennedy Promise, Doubleday, 1973.
*The Spoiled Child of the Western World: The Miscarriage of the American Idea in Our Time, Doubleday, 1976.
*The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century, St. Martin's, 1978.
*The Seven Deadly Sins Today, New Republic Books, 1978.
*A Journey into America, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1985.
*(With Mary Gordon and Alexander Theroux) The Revenge of Failure: The Culture of Envy and Rage, foreword by Os Guinness, Trinity Forum (Burke, VA), 1994.
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