Bill Kristol was born on 23rd December 1952 in New York to Jewish parents Irving Kristol, a former editor of Commentary Magazine and Gertrude Himmelfarb, a scholar of the Victorian era. He has one sister by the name Elizabeth Nelson. He married Susan Scheinberg in the year 1975, and they had three children, Anne, Rebecca, and Joseph. His son is a U.S marine captain and once served in Afghanistan. Kristol lives together with his wife in Northern Virginia. Bill is a successful political analyst and also a commentator.

Education

He was enrolled at Collegiate, a boy's preparatory school and graduated in 1970. After high school, he joined Harvard College to pursue his A.B. and graduated magna cum laude in 1973. He later continued a Ph.D. in government at Harvey Mansfield and graduated in 1979.

Career

Kristol worked as deputy issues director at Daniel Patrick Moynihan's US senate campaign in 1976. He became a teacher of political philosophy and US politics at Harvey's Kennedy school of government and the University of Pennsylvania. Bill then went to work for the government in the year 1985 serving as chief of staff to the secretary of education William Bennet during Reagan's administration. He later worked as chief of staff to the vice president Dan Quayle in President George .W.Bush administration in the same year.

In the year 1993 to 1994, he served in the capacity of chairman of the project for Republican Future and as the director of Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee. During the same period, together with John Podhoretz they founded the weekly standard and served as editors. He rose to fame in the same period when he led conservation opposition to the president Clinton health care plan.

In the year 1996, he was among the panelist of the ABC Sunday program, which was a favorite show in the mid-1990's. Two years later, he was among the policy analysts who proposed the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power. In 2003, he and Lawrence Kaplan in writing described the reason for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.

In 2007, he joined The Times as a columnist, and in the year 2008 became a writer of a weekly opinion column in the New York Times.

Achievements

Bill was awarded the Bradley price of $250,000 from Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In the year 1997 to 2005, he was the chairman of the New Citizenship Project.

Together with Robert Kagan, they are founders of Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

He is also a board of trustees for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,

He is also a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as well as a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative.

He also chairs the board of Keep America Safe, which he established together with Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame.

Bill is a board member of the Emergency Committee for Israel.

The Biography of Kristol shows that he was involved in the development of a web program of the Foundation for Constitutional Government.