- Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb (born
August 8 1922 ), also known as Bea Kristol, is an Americanhistorian known for her studies of theintellectual history of theVictorian era , particularly ofSocial Darwinism ; and as a conservativecultural critic . She is also known as an outspoken commentator of university education. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2004.She was born into a Jewish family in
Brooklyn, New York , and was educated atNew Utrecht High School andBrooklyn College . Her doctoral work was at theUniversity of Chicago .She is now
Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of theCity University of New York . She marriedIrving Kristol in 1942, but has always written as an academic under her maiden name. Their son,William Kristol , is the editor of the Weekly Standard and chairman of the American neo-conservative think tankProject for the New American Century , or PNAC. She is also sister to the lateMilton Himmelfarb of theAmerican Jewish Committee .Gertrude Himmelfarb serves on the advisory board of the new British conservative magazine "
Standpoint " as she currently does on the Council of Academic Advisers of theAmerican Enterprise Institute . [http://www.aei.org/about/contentID.20038142214500076/default.asp The American Enterprise Institute website]Works
*"Lord Acton: A Study of Conscience and Politics" (1952)
*"Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution" (1959)
*"Victorian Minds" (1968)
*"On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill" (1974)
*"The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age" (1984)
*"Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians" (1986)
*"The New History and the Old" (1987)
*"Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians" (1991)
*"On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society" (1994)
*"The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values" (1995)
*"One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution" (2001)
*"The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments" (2004)
*"The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling" (2006)References
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