

Radical Son
A Generational Odyssey
Author: David Horowitz
Narrator: Jonathan Marosz
Unabridged: 19 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/12/2001
Author: David Horowitz
Narrator: Jonathan Marosz
Unabridged: 19 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/12/2001
David Horowitz grew up a "red diaper baby" in a communist community in Sunnyside, Queens. He studied literature at Columbia, taking classes from Lionel Trilling, and became a "new leftist" during the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.Following the murder of his friend Betty van Patter by the Black Panther Party in December 1972 and the victory of the Communists in Indo-China, which led to the slaughter of millions of Asians, Horowitz had second thoughts about his former comrades and commitments. In 1985 he published a cover story with Peter Collier in the Washington Post called "Lefties for Reagan," announcing their new politics, and organized a Second Thoughts Conference in Washington composed of former radicals. Four years later they published a book of the articles they had written about their new perspective and the movement they had left behind.In 1997, Horowitz published his memoir, Radical Son, about his journey from the left. George Gilder hailed it as "the first great autobiography of his generation," and others compared the book to Whittaker Chambers' Witness.Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary magazine, says of Horowitz: "David Horowitz is hated by the Left because he is not only an apostate but has been even more relentless and aggressive in attacking his former political allies than some of us who preceded him in what I once called 'breaking ranks' with that world. He has also taken the polemical and organizational techniques he learned in his days on the left, and figured out how to use them against the Left, whose vulnerabilities he knows in his bones."A full bibliography of Horowitz's writings is available at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/bibliography
There is so much I could say here. I will say a bit about the book but first I want to do something I've done before and also I'd like to dedicate it to a specific group. As it happens I read this just after the election (2016). Right now a lot of young people are protesting and many are saying thing......more
Radical son, while autobiographical, is a thrilling psychological narrative. Though the book is political in nature and ultimately takes a very strong political stand, the overall tome is an account of David Horowitz's personal experience with a disengaged father, who never met his pleasure. In other......more
Winston Churchill once said, “If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” I first read it as a thoroughly conservative 17 year old. And I thought, "Hmm." And filed it away. Nobody had yet actually called me heartless, but most teenag......more
David Horowitz is a fairly well-known commentator and activist on the Right. What many folks under the age of 50 may not realize is that he was one of the most influential and outspoken members of the radical Left in the 60s. Many of his writings were used as "textbooks" for many radicals of the tim......more
Horowitz is a sociopath, but this book is still interesting to read. There are some legitimate criticisms of tendencies toward closed-mindedness in the liberal community, though they tend to disappear among the long passages of paranoia, racism, and self-worship. Worth reading if you'd like to see i......more