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The late Irving Kristol blazed a path from the labor left to the Reaganite right. But he never lost faith in the resilience of democracy—and the disfiguring effects of political rage.

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In M emoirs of a Trotskyist, Irving Kristol, one of the most daring and provocative American intellectuals of the 20th century, recounted his years as a young radical at New York's City College.

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