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Title: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60's by Peter Collier, David Horowitz ISBN: 0-671-66752-1 Publisher: Summit Books Pub. Date: March, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not Quite The Devils, but almost
Comment: In Destructive Generation, Peter Collier and David Horowitz put together an account of 60s radicalism that acts as an excellent antidote to the songs of U2 or Howard Zinn's chic People's History of the United States. The book goes a long way toward discrediting the fantasy of the 60s as a time of idealism and harmless rebellion, and resurrects the nearly forgotten "dark side" of the 60s.
At times, the book reads almost like a latter-day version of Dostoevsky's classic, the Devils. Like the Devils, the radicals portrayed in Destructive Generation -- notably Huey Newton, Bernadine Dohrn, Billy Ayers and Tom Hayden -- seem to behave the way they do not because they believe in revolution, but because they hate the system and they seem to be fascinated by nihilism and violence. The chapters on the Panthers and the Weatherman are the most instructive, while Horowitz's "letter to a political friend" is the most moving part of the book. If you are looking for the antithesis to Noam Chomsky, you will find it here.
The only drawback to the book is the way in which it uses sources. Footnotes are sparse, and paraphrases are often vague. Because of this, the book reads like one long editorial, rather than a work of history. One hopes that Collier and Horowitz will return to this work and create a second edition, with better notation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Miss those Chicago riots? Catch up now.
Comment: Must read for anyone who overslept and missed the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. If you always wanted to know what it was like to hang with the Panthers, but couldn't find the Ramparts office, get a peek inside those romantic days of yore. Of course Horowitz and Collier may not remember quite the way you heard it on the street back then, but, hell, what do they know? huh? If you figure the millions massacred after the US left Nam got what they deserved, this book is not for you. But if you're willing to take an honest look at the consequences of the 60's and more, plug in the coffee pot, unplug the phone, and dive in. Very, very thought provoking
Rating: 1
Summary: A jaudiced look at an era.
Comment: What the authors miss is that the "revolution" got us out of a stupid, murderous war, got us to accept people of color as humans, caused a backlash against corrupt police and FBI. Made the world a better place. Were the "leaders" sexually immoral and driven by ego? No argument there, but our so-called leaders in Washington are not unlike the characters that lead political activism in the sixties. Except they do nothing but keep the status quo.
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Title: RADICAL SON: A GENERATIONAL ODYSSEY by David Horowitz ISBN: 0684840057 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 21 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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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: 03 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Heterodoxy Handbook: How to Survive the PC Campus by David Horowitz, Peter Collier ISBN: 0895267314 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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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: Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey by David Horowitz, Jamie Glazov ISBN: 1890626511 Publisher: Spence Pub Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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