George Gilder

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George Franklin Gilder (born November 29, 1939 in New York City ) is an American publicist , speechwriter and conservative activist.

George Franklin Gilder (2005)

Life

Gilder grew up with his mother after his father died as a soldier in World War II . One of his great-great-grandfathers was Charles Lewis Tiffany , co-founder of Tiffany & Co. After attending Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, he studied government at Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1962). He also served in the United States Marine Corps . He was the speechwriter for Nelson Rockefeller , George W. Romney and Richard Nixon and as a spokesman for Charles Mathias . In 1994 he co-founded the conservative think tank Discovery Institute , which advocates intelligent design . From 1996 to 2007 he was responsible for the Gilder Technology Report . In 2000 he bought the conservative monthly magazine The American Spectator . In addition, he wrote a. a. for Forbes Magazine , National Review , The Wall Street Journal , The Economist , Harvard Business Review, and Wired .

David Foster Wallace's essay E Unibus Pluram: Television and Literature in the United States (1993) contains a review of Gilder's book Life after Television .

Fonts

  • The party that lost its head . Knopf, New York 1966. (with Bruce Chapman)
  • Sexual suicide . Quadrangle, New York 1973.
  • Naked nomads: unmarried men in America . Quadrangle, New York 1974.
  • Visible man: a true story of post-racist America . Basic Books, New York 1978.
  • Wealth and poverty . Basic Books, New York 1981.
  • The spirit of enterprise . Simon & Schuster, New York 1984.
  • Men and marriage . Pelican Pub. Co., Gretna 1986.
  • Microcosm: the quantum revolution in economics and technology . Simon & Schuster, New York 1989.
  • Life after television . Whittle Direct Books, Knoxville 1990.
  • The Israel test . Richard Vigilante Books, Minneapolis 2009.
  • Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World. Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2013.
  • Life after Google , Regnery Gateway, 2018

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Foster Wallace: The fun of it. All essays. Cologne 2018. pp. 231–300, here p. 288ff.
personal data
SURNAME Gilder, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilder, George Franklin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist and speechwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City