Irving Kristol
American columnist, journalist, and writer (1920–2009)
Biography
Irving William Kristol 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. He was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism". After his death, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the century". He is the father of political writer Bill Kristol.
Occupation
Irving Kristol is recorded as a social scientist, a philosopher, a publisher, a sociologist, a journalist, a university teacher, a historian and a politician, born in New York (1920–2009).
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