Gertrude Himmelfarb

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1. Gertrude Himmelfarb

   Author of On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society, Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians, The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

2. Roger Kimball

   Author of The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

3. Lord Acton

   Author of ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY (Selected Writings of Lord Acton), Essays in the Study and Writing of History (Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol 2), Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality (Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol 3)

4. Roger Scruton

   Author of The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life

5. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Personal Impressions, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

6. Paul Johnson

   Author of Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830

7. Allan Bloom

   Author of The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship, Giants and Dwarfs : Essays 1960-1990

8. Peter Gay

   Author of Freud: A Life for Our Time, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

9. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, American Cause, The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict

10. Jacques Barzun

    Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, The House of Intellect, A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works

11. Forrest McDonald

    Author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, E Pluribus Unum, The American Presidency: An Intellectual History

12. Asa Briggs

    Author of Victorian Cities, The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (History of English), Victorian Things

13. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington

14. Hilton Kramer

    Author of The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War, The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age, Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century

15. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson, The Genius of American Politics

16. Thomas Sowell

    Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

17. Robert Conquest

    Author of Reflections on a Ravaged Century, The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History

18. William F. Buckley, Jr.

    Author of God and Man at Yale, Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought

19. Donald Kagan

    Author of Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell Paperbacks), The Archidamian War (Cornell Paperbacks)

20. Michael Burleigh

    Author of Earthly Powers, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror