Radical Son: A Generational Oddysey - Brossura

Horowitz, David

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ISBN 10: 0684840057 ISBN 13: 9780684840055

Casa editrice: Touchstone, 1998

Riassunto

An intimate autobiographical account of one man's journey from 1960s radical to 1990s conservative includes a critique of the American Left and an indictment of the legacy of the 1960s. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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In a narrative that possesses both remarkable political importance and extraordinary literary power, David Horowitz tells the story of his startling political odyssey from Sixties radical to Nineties conservative. A political document of our times, Radical Son traces three generations of one American family's infatuation with the radical left from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Marxist empire six decades later. David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left and an editor of Ramparts, the magazine that set the intellectual and revolutionary tone for the movement. From his vantage point at the center of the action, he populates Radical Son with vivid portraits of people who made the radical decade, while unmaking America at the same time. We are introduced to an aged Bertrand Russell, the world-famous philosopher and godson of John Stuart Mill, who in his nineties became America's scourge, organizing a War Crimes Tribunal over the war in Vietnam. There is Tom Hayden, the radical Everyman who promoted guerrilla warfare in America's cities in the Sixties, married film legend Jane Fonda, and became a Democratic state senator when his revolutions failed. We meet Huey Newton, a street hustler and murderer who founded a black militia that became the Sixties' most resonant symbol of black power and black militance. Horowitz's encounter with Newton and his Black Panthers, the most celebrated radical group of the Sixties, becomes the focal point of the story when a brutal murder committed by the Panthers changes his life forever, prompting the profound "second thoughts" that eventually led him to become an intellectual leader of conservatism and its most prominentactivist in Hollywood.

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• Editore: Touchstone
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684840057
• ISBN 13: 9780684840055
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 488