Volume 42, Number 17 · November 2, 1995
An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual
By Theodore H. Draper
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
by Irving Kristol
Free Press, 493 pp., $25.00
Irving Kristol belongs to a remarkable generation which came of age in the City College of New York just before the Second World War. Among his friends at the time were Daniel Bell, Irving Howe, a somewhat younger Nathan Glazer, and others who have made careers of distinction and influence. They were embryonic Jewish American intellectuals, who went to City College because it was the only college that would take them in or they could afford.
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