Henry Fairlie, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Fairlie

British journalist

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1924

Date of Death: 25-Feb-1990

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Henry Fairlie

  • Henry Jones Fairlie (13 January 1924 London, England – 25 February 1990 Washington, D.C.) was a British political journalist and social critic.
  • Sometimes mistakenly believed to have coined the term "the Establishment", an analysis of how "all the right people" came to run Britain largely through social connections.
  • He spent 36 years as a prominent freelance writer on both sides of the Atlantic, appearing in The Spectator, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and many other papers and magazines.
  • He was also the author of five books, most notably The Kennedy Promise, an early revisionist critique of the US presidency of John F.
  • Kennedy. In 2009, Yale University Press published Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations (ISBN 9780300123838), an anthology of his work edited by Newsweek correspondent Jeremy McCarter.

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