What is Jeffrey Hart?
[[File:2006-jeffreyhart.jpg|right|200px]] '''Jeffrey Peter Hart''' (February 23, 1930 &ndash; February 16, 2019) was an American cultural critic, essayist and columnist. He was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. Hart was Professor Emeritus of English at [[Dartmouth College]].<ref name=RaunerBio>{{cite web |url=http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms941.html |title=Guide to the Papers of Jeffrey P. Hart, 1982 - 2005 |access-date=2008-10-30 |work=Rauner Special Collections Library |publisher=[[Dartmouth College]] |archive-date=2015-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915211640/http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms941.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Hart took a leave of absence from Dartmouth in 1968 to work for the abortive [[United States presidential election, 1968|presidential campaign]] of [[Governor of California]] [[Ronald Reagan]]. This role led to brief service as a [[White House]] [[speechwriter]] for [[Richard Nixon]]. Hart died on February 16, 2019 in [[Fairlee, Vermont]] of complications from [[dementia]], aged 88.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jeffrey Hart, R.I.P. |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/jeffrey-hart-r-i-p/ |work=[[National Review]] |date=February 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Jeff Hart passes at 88 |url=http://dartreview.com/professor-jeff-hart-passes-at-88/ |website=The Dartmouth Review |access-date=19 February 2019 |date=19 February 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Jeffrey}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:American columnists]] [[Category:American critics]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:American political commentators]] [[Category:Cultural critics]] [[Category:Journalists from New York City]] [[Category:Writers from Vermont]] [[Category:Writers from New Hampshire]] [[Category:Dartmouth College faculty]] {{US-bio-stub}}