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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Horowitz, David, 1939- Radical son. New York : Free Press, c1997 (OCoLC)606018897 Online version: Horowitz, David, 1939- Radical son. New York : Free Press, c1997 (OCoLC)609274118 |
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| Named Person: | David Horowitz |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Horowitz |
| ISBN: | 068482793X 9780684827933 |
| OCLC Number: | 35029584 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | x, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Responsibility: | David Horowitz. |
Abstract:
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 prominent activist in Hollywood.
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