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Title: Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery by David Horowitz ISBN: 1-893554-44-9 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (84 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thought-provoking, illuminating, alarming
Comment: Not only a thought-provoking argument against reparations, but an alarming chronicle of the dire state of free speech on American college campuses. Concerning the issue of reparations, Horowitz dispassionately dissects the issue from a variety of angles, applying principles of fairness, casuistry, and appeals to common good. I found his arguments clear and compelling, and the supporting material provided some interesting historical and economic discussion of slavery. Most importantly, I understood his motivations to be based not on hate, but on true compassion and a desire for what is best for all Americans and for black Americans in particular. The real story of this book is not reparations, however, but the reactions to the publication of (and attempts to publish) his opinion in a variety of American college campus newspapers. The responses ranged from irrational, highly-charged emotional outbursts to outright censorship and suppression. His well-documented account paints an alarming picture of the stranglehold of "politically correct" ideology in our universities, and the seeming lost art of rational debate (as opposed to ad hominem attacks and binary categorizations) in our culture today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Common Sense for a Divisive Issue
Comment: David Horowitz has written a book of concentrated common sense on the latest campus cause celebre, "reparations for slavery." What this represents is not compensation for slavery, since all the slaves are dead, but a massive transfer of wealth from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves. It makes no sense except to further the leftist agenda of defining society as a collection of villains and victims.
Horowitz attempted to buy ads in various campus newspapers opposing reparations for slavery. Later, he spoke on the subject in various campus forums. He was shouted down, insulted, threatened, and required bodyguards to protect him from radical students while merely exercising his right to free speech -- not hate speech, not racially divisive speech, not incendiary speech, but reasoned and factual discourse. What have our universites become?
Horowitz's book filled me with dread and alarm, to realize that so many of our universities are in the hands of a radical political elite where racial diversity is praised while diversity of opinion, ideology and thought are all but banned. Indeed, in one of the universities where Horowitz's ad opposing reparations was published, radical students simply stole all the student newspapers so no one could read it. Many of these student radicals seem to be ideological bullies who refuse honest debate. They censor and slander the opposition, shout down conservative speakers in campus forums, bully campus newspaper editors and monopolize all poltical discussion.
If you are a university student, you should read this book. Whatever political issue you encounter in college, it likely will be neither balanced nor fair, given the current intellectual climate. You owe it to yourself to be fully informed on this most controversial issue.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good but only for some... specially the open-minded.
Comment: Horowitz uses this book to document the efforts used to PREVENT THE DISCUSSION of his ideas on major college campuses. The shocking and shameful fact is that those efforts were condoned or aided by faculty and administration. School by school Horowitz documents the hysterical response to the very idea that he should speak on campus. Under the current regime, Black students are considered unable to defend their ideas in honest debate. Blacks must be protected from heretical ideas by the prohibition the dissemination of forbidden ideas. This is censorship, pure and simple, only now the unacceptable material is labeled 'hate speech' Horowitz is not a racist. He is someone who does not want to see the country devolve into a collection of warring tribes. The history of Ugana/Rwanda and of Francophone Canada are examples of what he seeks to avoid. Parents of college age students should read this book and should check out the history, anthropology and sociology departments to see what passes for scholarship.
This book is a MUST read. Anyone reading this that has not already done so MUST also read the Horowitz autobiography 'Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey'. One of the most important and informative books I have ever read and one I give as gifts to people that I think are open minded enough to learn from it. OK, so I haven't been able to give all that many away but I endeavor to persevere. This book is loaded with the TRUTH. The TRUTH is plainly anathema to the vast majority of the Left as they only embrace the truth when it doesn't deviate from their intolerant ideology or how they WANT the world to be! Having lived and worked a significant portion of my life in and around San Francisco I am well schooled in the ways and smear tactics of the Left. I can all but guarantee that any negative review of this tome of truth will hail from a concerted Left wing tactic to sway and smear. Don't buy the smear. BUY the book.
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Title: Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes by David Horowitz ISBN: 1890626317 Publisher: Spence Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The POLITICS OF BAD FAITH: The Radical Assault on America's Future by David Horowitz ISBN: 0684856794 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey by David Horowitz ISBN: 1890626511 Publisher: Spence Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate over Reparations by Raymond A. Winbush, Raymond A., Ph.D. Winbush ISBN: 0060083107 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: RADICAL SON: A GENERATIONAL ODYSSEY by David Horowitz ISBN: 0684840057 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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