Mucho thanks for the info.
I knew that Gingrich wrote glowingly of her in one of his books, (Gertrude says socks should be a replacement for a welfare check) so the Kristol connection makes since. The extreme political shift is somewhat astounding, going from red-tolerant to conservative. With such an extreme shift, how can any of what she goes on and on about be geniune?
marta
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
> Doug is correct that Billy Kristol is the son of
> Gertrude Himmelfarb.
> Barkley Rosser
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:57:09 -0500 Doug Henwood
> <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Marta Russell wrote:
> >
> > >Does anyone know what Himmelfarb's background is? Like where her money comes
> > >from, family political background, etc., you know, the skinny on her. Isn't
> > >she a board member of AEI, for starters?
> >
> > I don't know anything about her personal background other than that she's
> > married to Irving Kristol, and I assume she's the mother of Billy Kristol,
> > editor of the Weekly Standard and former Quayle advisor. Her own academic
> > expertise is social policy; her schtick seems to be recommending a return
> > to good old Victorian values. Amazon lists 23 titles under her name.
> >
> > She's on AEI's "Council of Academic Advisors" (check out the list of ghouls
> > at <http://www.aei.org/annual/trustee.htm>).
> >
> > Doug
>
> --
> Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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