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1922 - Born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York on the 8th of August.
1942 - She married Irving Kristol, but has always written as an academic under her maiden name.
1952 - Lord Acton: A Study of Conscience and Politics.
1959 - Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution.
1968 - Victorian Minds.
1974 - On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill.
1984 - The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age.
1986 - Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians.
1987 - The New History and the Old.
1991 - She was named Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians.
1994 - On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society.
1995 - The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values.
2001 - One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution.
2004 - She received the National Humanities Medal.
- The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments.
2006 - The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling.
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