Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922), also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture.
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“The ‘real movement’ of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb (b. 1922)