Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1923, July 19 | Born, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1943 | A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1943-1946 | Second lieutenant and captain, United States Air Force |
| 1948 | J.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1948-1956 | Associate, Shearman, Sterling and Wright law firm, New York, N.Y. |
| 1949 | Admitted to New York Bar |
| 1955 | Special counsel, New York State Senate Finance Committee, Albany, N.Y. |
| 1956-1957 | Associate counsel, United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Washington, D.C. Investigated communist presence in New Orleans, Hawaii, and the United States Treasury Department |
| 1957-1988 | Publisher of National Review |
| 1964 | Helped establish the National Draft Goldwater Committee that engineered Barry Goldwater's Republican presidential nomination |
| 1965-1970 | Vice chairman, American Conservative Union |
| 1968 | Published Special Counsel (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House. 304 pp.) |
| 1970-1973 | Debater, Public Broadcasting System television program "The Advocates" |
| 1972 | Member, Presidential Advisory Task Force on Civil Disorders |
| 1973 | Published Amnesty? The Unsettled Question of Vietnam with Arlie Schardt and Mark Hatfield, (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Sun River Press. 148 pp.) Began syndicated column, "The Conservative Advocate" Distinguished Citizen Award, New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y. |
| 1973-1980 | Served on the National News Council |
| 1975 | Published The Making of the New Majority Party (New York: Sheed and Ward. 222 pp.) |
| 1981 | Published How to Win Arguments (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 207 pp.) |
| 1984 | Published The Rise of the Right (New York: W. Morrow. 336 pp.) |
| 1987 | Published A Short Course on South Africa (New York: N.p. 38 pp.) |
| 1988 | Published The Coming Battle for the Media: Curbing the Power of the Media Elite (New York: Morrow. 228 pp.) Retired as publisher of National Review |
| 1989 | Published The Meaning of Taiwan (New York: N.p. 50 pp.) |
| 1989-2011 | Distingusihed fellow, Claremont Institute, Claremont, Calif. |
| 2011, Apr. 16 | Died, San Francisco, Calif. |