| Acknowledgment | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Table of Contents | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| Chapter 1.Early Life as a New York Jewish Intellectual | 第17-23页 |
| ·Growing up in a Jewish working family | 第17-19页 |
| ·A Trotskyist at Alcove No.1 of the CCNY | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter 2.Mugged by Reality of the 1960S | 第23-32页 |
| ·Great Society—Good Intention,Unwanted Results | 第24-28页 |
| ·Student Rebellion and Counterculture | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter 3.Neoconservative Persuasion—Reinserting the Spirit of Prudence | 第32-44页 |
| ·Celebrating Capitalist Liberty and the Free Market | 第32-38页 |
| ·Liberty With Social Order | 第38-44页 |
| Chapter Four:Skepticism—The Constant Element in Irving Kristol's Intellectual Evolution | 第44-54页 |
| ·Skepticism in the American Political Tradition | 第44-47页 |
| ·Tracing Irving Kristol's Political Skepticism | 第47-51页 |
| ·Irving Kristol's Conversion and The rise of Neo-conservatism | 第51-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-57页 |
