[1] In later years has drifted, even endorsing Barack Obama.
Father: Clifford F. Hart (architect)
Mother: Gladys Reith (musician)
Wife: Stephanie Woods (m. 1953, div. 1981, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Benjamin
Daughter: Emily Hart
Son: Matthew
Daughter: Rosemary Carroll
Wife: Nancy Killheffer (m. 1984, until his death)
High School: Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY
University: Dartmouth College (transferred)
University: BA English Literature, Columbia University (1952)
University: PhD English Literature, Columbia University
Professor: English Literature, Dartmouth College (1963-93)
National Review Senior Editor
Converted to Catholicism from Episcopalianism
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (7-Sep-2000) · Herself
Author of books:
Viscount Bolingbroke: Tory Humanist (1965, biography)
The American Dissent: A Decade of Modern Conservatism (1966, politics)
When the Going was Good! American Life in the Fifties (1982, history)
From This Moment On: America in 1940 (1987, history)
Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and Politics (1989, essays)
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education (2001, social studies)
The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times (2005, media studies)
The Living Moment: Modernism in a Broken World (2012, criticism)
