Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. She is also known as an outspoken commentator, in relation to university education.
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated at New Utrecht High School and Brooklyn College. Her doctoral work was at the University of Chicago.
She is now Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She married Irving Kristol in 1942, but has always written as an academic under her maiden name. Their son, William Kristol, is the chairman of the American right-wing think tank Project for the New American Century, or PNAC.
Works
Roads to Modernity: British, French, and American Enlightenments
- 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)