Gertrude Himmelfarb has died at age 97. She was a part of the COMMENTARY family almost from the beginning. We will have more to say later, but for now here’s a list of her writings for the magazine and a list of COMMENTARY reviews of her books:
Review of Community of the Free, by Yves Simon – June 1948
The Study of Man: The Prophets of the New Conservatism – January 1950
Post Mortems on Germany – September 1950
The Study of Man: Political Thinking: Ancients vs. Moderns – July 1951
On the Horizon: Henry Adams’ Skeptic Faith in Democracy – December 1952
Anonymity, “Time,” and Success – July 1960
Fabianism – August 1968
Poverty à La Mode – August 1971
Radical History – September 1974
The “New History” – January 1975
Review of The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century, by Owen Chadwick – October 1976
In Defense of Progress – June 1980
From Clapham to Bloomsbury: A Genealogy of Morals – February 1985
The “Real” Marx – April 1985
Victorian Values/Jewish Values – February 1989
The Right to Misquote – April 1991
Of Heroes, Villains, and Valets – June 991
The Politics of Dissent – July 1994
What To Do About Education: The Universities – October 1994
Academic Advocates – September 1995
The National Prospect: A Symposium – November 1995
On the Future of Conservatism – February 1997
For the Love of Country – May 1997
“A Man’s Own Household His Enemies” – July/August 1999
The Election Wars and the Culture Wars – May 2000
Two Nations or Two Cultures? – January 2001
Judging Richard Posner – February 2002
Irving Kristol’s Neoconservative Persuasion – February 2011
Her Books Reviewed in COMMENTARY:
Lord Acton, reviewed by George Shuster – February 1953
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, reviewed by H.R. Trevor-Roper – September 1959
Victorian Minds, reviewed by Robert Nisbet – November 1968
On Liberty and Liberalism, reviewed by Peter Berger – October 1974
The Idea of Poverty, reviewed by Maurice Cranston – March 1984
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians, reviewed by Myron Magnet – September 1986
Poverty and Compassion, reviewed by Peter Berger – December 1991
On Looking Into the Abyss, reviewed by John Gross – April 1994
The De-Moralization of Society, reviewed by Peter Berger – May 1995
One Nation, Two Cultures, reviewed by Paul Johnson – January 2000
The Roads to Modernity, reviewed by James A. Nuechterlein – November 2004
The Moral Imagination, reviewed by Michael Lewis – May 2006
The Spirit of the Age, in Terry Teachout’s Bookshelf – December 21, 2007
The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot, reviewed by John Gross – June 2009
The People of the Book, reviewed by David Frum – December 2011
